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Five new books about love

This small-scale history charts the true story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a married couple who set out to sail from Southampton to New Zealand in 1972. Almost a year in, an encounter with a 40ft ...

Zelenskyy and European leaders fly to Washington to press Trump on Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be joined in Washington by key European allies, in a push to find common ground with the US. Seven senior European leaders have said they will attend the ...

Battle of Orgreave: my reflections on a long wait for justice

There’s hope that UK inquiry into police’s violent clash with miners enables reconciliation — with access to full evidence ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and allies to press Donald Trump on security guarantees

European leaders will join Ukraine’s president in US as he comes under pressure to concede territory to Russia ...

Zelenskyy goes back to the White House

US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy today, just days after meeting Russian President Putin ...

Tech utterly dominates markets. Should we worry?

The 10 largest US stocks by market cap are Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Broadcom, Tesla, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. Together they account for (all figures from S&P ...

Transcript: Why Russia’s wartime economy is starting to crack. With Elina Ribakova

This is an audio transcript of The Economics Show podcast episode: ‘Why Russia’s wartime economy is starting to crack. With Elina Ribakova’ Sam Fleming Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been ...

Restrictive US interest rates are fighting loose financial conditions

Despite growth slowing in the first half of the year, Fed officials on the whole believe this is primarily because of Trump’s tariffs and immigration policies and that the US economy remains resilient ...

Bolivia heads to presidential run-off after ruling leftwing party collapses

Bolivia is heading for an unprecedented presidential run-off election between centrist and conservative candidates in October ...

Transcript: Zelenskyy goes back to the White House

Lulu Smyth Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, August 18th, and this is your FT News Briefing. Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy will head back to the White House today to press for a ...

Qantas hit with Australia’s largest industrial relations fine over Covid job cuts

Qantas has been ordered to pay the largest industrial relations penalty in Australian corporate history over the illegal ...

Art of Fashion: the autumn/winter 2025 issue

Veronica Leoni’s grand plan to reboot Calvin Klein. Plus, Isabel Marant on why her free-spirited aesthetic endures, six up-and-coming designers on gaining a foothold in the industry and how menswear h ...