1. Wang Chuanfu, the BYD founder with a battery obsession

2. Is booze approaching its Big Tobacco moment?

3. Columbia University cedes to Trump’s demands with series of reforms

4. US bars former president of Argentina from entering the country

5. StubHub plans IPO in new test of Wall Street appetite for tech stocks

6. UK looks at cutting digital services tax to avoid Trump tariffs

7. Heathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilience

8. Heathrow hotels quadruple prices as stranded passengers drive demand

9. Air travellers face further disruption as Heathrow reopens after fire

10. Trump’s assault on the rule of law: ‘the speed and intent is remarkable’

11. Turkey spends record 12bn defending lira after Erdoğan rival’s arrest

12. Reeves’ cuts to total over 10bn in bid to restore UK finances

13. UK statistics agency braces for official reviews as more data flaws emerge

14. Do financiers believe in sustainability or not?

15. Nike shares hit 5-year low as tariffs and consumer caution threaten sales

16. Europe still needs to earn the confidence of investors

17. Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home

18. Musk urges Tesla employees to ‘hang on to’ shares

19. Thames Water had feared it might be left with just 39mn cash by month-end

20. Boeing wins contract to build next-generation US fighter jet

21. The non-dom brain drain is starting to hit the UK

22. Damage from Thames Water debacle extends to the wider economy

23. US to probe Chinese telecom groups it suspects of posing security risk

24. Mexican stocks deflect Trump’s trade blows

25. JPMorgan changes DEI to DOI as companies respond to Trump assault on ‘equity’

26. US investors in ByteDance explore TikTok deal to appease Trump

27. The UK’s inflation basket is a casual vibe check

28. Trump says he would be happy for US to become ‘associate’ Commonwealth member

29. The dizzying shifts in the global economic narrative

30. Trump drops Paul Weiss order after law firm pledges 40mn of pro bono support

31. S&P heads for fifth week of declines as earnings drag down stocks

32. ‘We have to be prepared’: Torsten Reil of defence tech company Helsing

33. Austerity redux? Spring Statement lookahead

34. Donald Trump’s war on America’s universities

35. UK should ‘ideally’ not have ‘any’ troops in Ukraine, says Badenoch

36. Israel’s defence minister threatens to annex territory in Gaza

37. Hong Kong’s golden age of cinema charmed the world — and left an enduring legacy

38. Is selling the family home worth the heartache?

39. ‘I don’t want to shower with Nazis’: FC Bundestag in crisis over AfD players

40. AstraZeneca to invest 2.5bn in China after scandal

41. Recession watch 2025

42. Turkish stocks head for worst week since 2008 after Erdoğan rival’s arrest

43. Sudan’s army recaptures presidential palace in Khartoum

44. CoreWeave tests investor risk appetite with 7.5bn in looming debt repayments

45. Who would be a university president in America right now?

46. Merz’s 1tn spending plan wins final approval from Germany’s upper house

47. Stephen Lawrence killer admits role in attack for first time

48. Home Depot contends with higher-for-longer interest rate era

49. Spring Statement will lay bare impending policy trade-offs

50. Patrick Seguin turned his Paris apartment into a paragon of Prouvé

51. Douglas warning on weak demand fuels 22% plunge in beauty retailer’s shares

52. UK watchdog fines sports broadcasters 4mn over pay collusion

53. UK’s statistics agency admits issues with more key data

54. UK races to avoid Trump tariffs

55. South Korea’s biggest defence group plans 2.5bn share sale to expand overseas

56. UK government borrowing overshoots expectations

57. Bessent’s debt dilemma

58. Demands for EU joint debt as leaders seek even more cash for arms

59. Live news: Heathrow closes after nearby fire causes power outage

60. Donald Trump takes on America’s elite

61. Tin hats on, investors — and consider the cockroach stocks

62. Big companies backtrack on climate goals in bosses’ pay

63. Women in UK face HRT treatment ‘lottery’, doctors warn

64. Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

65. The madness of the 100,000 childcare tax trap

66. Polish wine is often excellent. Why is it so hard to find?

67. UK should not cave in to Trump’s ‘bullying’ over tech tax says Davey

68. The illicit oil trade that is keeping Libya divided

69. Prospects for EV charging companies fade as Trump resumes presidency

70. UN chief pleads with EU leaders not to request rebates amid Trump cuts

71. Dollar slump magnifies stock market pain for foreign investors

72. US seeks to reopen terms of Ukraine minerals deal

73. Why a weight-loss drug could become a geopolitical bargaining chip

74. Big Tech under pressure to act on data centres’ thirst for water

75. Winners and losers emerge in Australian water rights system

76. How a glass of recycled sewage helps on water shortages

77. Mismanagement turns up pressure on South Africa’s water system

78. Beijing faces pushback over ambitious hydropower project plans

79. Trump backlash adds to challenges for California water policymakers

80. Extreme rainfall puts cities on alert

81. Heathrow airport closed after nearby fire cuts power

82. Allianz breaks up with India’s Bajaj

83. Circle K and 7-Eleven owners line up US stores sale as part of 47bn takeover bid

84. Israeli cabinet sacks head of Shin Bet intelligence agency

85. GB Energy makes first investment with 110mn for clean energy

86. ONS change to pension valuation is ‘fundamentally flawed’, think-tank says

87. Trump invokes wartime powers to increase US minerals production

88. FirstFT: European military powers discuss plans to replace US in Nato

89. European military powers work on 5-10 year plan to replace US in Nato

90. Big Four accountants attack IRS over ‘capricious’ US tax treatment of Coca-Cola

91. Why is UK wage growth so strong?

92. ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico

93. Tesla’s staff at German plant demand better working conditions

94. UK Treasury plans to monitor departments’ spending in real time

95. America needs what Canada sells

96. The Gaza ceasefire must be restored

97. Why Trump is interested in Ukraine’s nuclear power plants

98. UK may have competitive fibre broadband market by 2031, regulator says

99. Tesla recalls more than 46,000 Cybertrucks over safety issue

100. Ukraine coalition moving from ‘political concept to military plans’, says Starmer

101. Santosh — riveting Indian police procedural puts woman on the front line

102. NBA’s Boston Celtics sold for 6.1bn to private equity investor

103. Zimbabwe sports minister elected first female Olympics president

104. Canada election expected to be held on April 28

105. Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Chinese companies over Iranian oil shipments

106. Reopening Nord Stream 2 would be a catastrophic mistake

107. AI weather forecast project eyes access through desktop computers

108. Apprenticeships can help fix the UK’s growth problem

109. The promise of the fifth estate is being squeezed

110. Yields up, (long-dated) borrowing down?

111. Hamas fires first rockets at Israel as IDF strikes reignite conflict

112. AI can help cut time it takes to bring UK criminal cases, says review

113. Nicola Sturgeon cleared in SNP finance probe

114. Japan is out of the chip race but still in the game

115. Accenture warns Musk’s Doge-led spending crackdown is hitting revenues

116. Trump finds making peace is easier said than done

117. New flight patterns mean Gatwick will not pass 2019 peak this year

118. Foxconn set to sign contract to produce EVs for Mitsubishi Motors

119. Bank of England keeps rates on hold at 4.5%

120. Let Only Red Flowers Bloom — Emily Feng on what it is to be Chinese

121. Is AI coming for art fairs? This android artist has a proposal — with a twist

122. How US energy executives are navigating Trump’s America

123. CK Hutchison records bumper profits at ports ahead of BlackRock deal

124. Why did businesspeople back Trump?

125. Europe is about to make its biggest strategic mistake

126. Turkey detains 37 in escalating crackdown on opposition to Erdoğan

127. Soaring global debt interest costs outstrip defence spending

128. Herbert Smith Freehills fined 465,000 over Russia sanction breaches

129. ‘Fiscal rules’ has become a stock phrase

130. Starlink in the Pacific and Baidu’s PR headache

131. Norway’s oil fund buys into London’s Covent Garden estate

132. UK wage growth held steady at 5.9 per cent

133. The Fed’s uncertainty doesn’t scare markets

134. It’s time for yet another UK fiscal event. Will the OBR fix its BoE bond-sale projections?

135. Hungary breaks with the EU by seeking to turn Ukraine into ‘buffer zone’

136. One-bed flats unaffordable for key workers across half of England

137. UK universities face rising risk of bankruptcy, says regulator

138. Don’t call European stocks ‘exceptional’

139. Filmmaker Sandhya Suri on Santosh: ‘She’s not a good cop in a bad system — everybody’s morally grey’

140. Gilts investors brace for nearly 310bn in debt sales

141. Italy’s paper hub loses its story, page by page

142. ‘The caterpillar’: British banks’ 50bn answer to falling rates

143. Pearl Lam: ‘You cannot have great collectors without great museums’

144. Poland and UK discuss defence spending as Europe moves to re-arm

145. Iberdrola chair warns of surge in Spanish power prices if country shuts nuclear plants

146. Erdoğan’s move against main rival plunges Turkey into crisis

147. Birmingham’s bin strike risks spilling over as workers and council enter talks

148. What will be in Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement?

149. Smarter rules will unlock the funds needed to pay for Europe’s security

150. Is this the start of a period of European exceptionalism in markets?

151. EU probes BYD plant in Hungary over unfair Chinese subsidies

152. Retail traders take on hedge funds in Europe’s answer to ‘meme stock’ mania

153. Europe tries to fix its plumbing — and leave Starlink behind

154. Israel’s ‘forever war’ stretches IDF to the limit

155. How Jeff Bezos made peace with Maga

156. Mexico hopes to stave off Trump tariffs

157. China raises state funding for strategic minerals amid US trade war

158. Nvidia to spend hundreds of billions on US chipmaking over next 4 years, says chief

159. SoftBank expands AI portfolio with 6.5bn Ampere deal

160. UK employers ‘find it cheaper to replace sick staff than retain them’

161. Higher medicine sales tax makes UK ‘uninvestable’, drugmakers warn

162. UK cyber security watchdog warns on future risk of quantum computer hacking

163. Musk’s X raises 1bn in new equity fundraising round

164. CoreWeave looks to raise up to 2.7bn in IPO

165. UK must be more ambitious on rebuilding EU relations, says British Chambers of Commerce

166. Greenpeace hit with 660mn damages bill over US oil pipeline protests

167. FirstFT: Fed slashes US growth forecast as Trump’s policies affect outlook

168. Reeves will not raise taxes in Spring Statement, say officials

169. Fed cuts US growth forecast as Trump’s policies weigh on outlook

170. Snow White — fairytale made real or poisoned apple?

171. Colombia government chaos deepens as finance minister quits

172. ‘Like a frog getting boiled’: Labour MPs feel the heat over 5bn welfare cuts

173. The alarming detention of the Turkish president’s rival

174. Turkish assets take a confidence hit

175. Trump funding cuts will ‘kneecap’ US innovation, universities warn

176. Fed to decide on rates as Trump’s tariffs cloud economic outlook

177. BYD’s 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals?

178. Israel renews ground operation in Gaza

179. Tax relief for cash Isa savers rose to 2.1bn last year

180. Female-led start-ups are increasingly starved of funding

181. Ex-UK minister Tulip Siddiq hits out at ‘false’ fraud claims by Bangladesh

182. UK Treasury omits defence from National Wealth Fund priority sectors

183. UK races to avoid worst of Trump tariffs with talks on tech tax

184. Music industry revenues slow as pandemic-era CD boom fades

185. EU revives capital markets union plan to unlock trillions in savings

186. Tech groups boost IPO revival hopes despite market tumult

187. Europe is only half-awake from its long sleep

188. Elon Musk’s xAI and Nvidia join BlackRock and Microsoft’s 30bn AI fund

189. Elon Musk-backed foreign aid group GiveDirectly is hit by Doge cuts

190. A pitch-black art gallery — now that’s a bright idea

191. EU to exclude US, UK and Turkey from 150bn rearmament fund

192. Israeli bombing plunges Gazans back into war

193. Zelenskyy to talk to Trump after Russia continues strikes on Ukraine

194. Santander closes a fifth of UK branches

195. British Library to expand after 1.1bn investment from Mitsui Fudosan

196. No one knows why UK benefit claims have outpaced peer countries

197. China’s Hesai denies misleading investors on revenues and military ties

198. Indonesia shores up rupiah as economic fears mount

199. Clarity on tariffs can’t come soon enough

200. Erdoğan’s main rival detained by Turkish police

201. Was Catherine Mann right to pivot? With charts and historical enquiry, we fail to answer that question

202. Why Putin’s ceasefire demands are a test case for Europe’s resolve

203. Boeing struggles in the final frontier

204. Samsung promises to pursue deals in ‘do or die’ bid to revive growth

205. Trump’s peace efforts unravel

206. How Picasso became the ultimate prize for China’s new collectors

207. How to de-fang a fraudster

208. Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art: a gleaming white shell in the shadow of Stalin’s palace

209. Hidden ‘double dip’ charges hit UK car insurance customers on monthly contracts

210. Bundesbank enlists AI to prove ECB’s dovish bias

211. Sadiq Khan says residents must not ‘dictate’ Oxford Street decision

212. How big is the UK ‘quango’ state?

213. Why is top-tier renting on the rise in London?

214. Obsessed with: finding the best Manhattan . . . in Manhattan

215. The race to adapt to a world without aid

216. Vanguard plugs ‘transformational’ idea for Europe ETF trading venue

217. Hay’s Villa Colucci: an Italian palazzo with Danish design edge

218. Lammy urged to sanction Dubai officials over detainment of UK businessman

219. Meloni warns EU against ‘vicious circle’ of tariff war with Trump

220. Fed faces new threat due to soaring inflation expectations by US consumers

221. Investors pump 22bn into short-term US debt to ride out market ‘storm’

222. Stop trying to make stock vigilantes happen

223. Has Goldman Sachs already chosen its next CEO?

224. Rio Tinto dismisses proxy advisers’ support for review of UK listing

225. Trump’s trade uncertainty pushes Bank of Japan to hold rates

226. China delays approval of BYD’s Mexico plant

227. Ben & Jerry’s says CEO ousted by Unilever over political activism

228. JX Advanced Metals rises on debut in Japan’s biggest IPO since 2018

229. Is Trump above the law?

230. Two Democrats on US antitrust panel say they were ‘illegally fired’ by Trump

231. Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models

232. ‘If Trump defies a Supreme Court order, will it matter to markets?’

233. Citi cuts top bankers’ bonuses tied to turnaround drive

234. Musk’s X obtains 44bn valuation in sharp turnaround

235. FirstFT: US chief justice issues rare rebuke to Donald Trump

236. Reeves to squeeze public spending further in Spring Statement

237. Howard Lutnick touts Elon Musk’s Starlink for US broadband scheme

238. The Capital One shakedown

239. Erdoğan’s main rival risks ban from Turkish vote after degree annulled

240. Will Israel return to a full-scale war in Gaza?

241. Will UK welfare cuts pay off?

242. Ex-Russian politician goes on trial in UK for breaching sanctions

243. The White House war on federal statistics

244. Putin agrees 30-day halt to strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in call with Trump

245. Google’s 32bn cloud deal rests on hazy assumptions

246. Will anybody buy a ‘Mar-a-Lago accord’?

247. US Chief Justice rebukes Trump after president’s threat to impeach judges

248. Europe’s moment is more than reheated Gaullism

249. Tennis stars accuse governing bodies of ‘cartel’ to deny them more prize money

250. Google parent Alphabet agrees 3.2bn break fee in Wiz deal

251. German parliament approves Merz’s 1tn spending plan

252. Brussels seeks to purchase weapons for entire EU

253. Wall Street stocks slide as sell-off in tech shares picks up pace

254. What auto bosses worry will become the next front in the tariff war

255. Hong Kong’s cargo sector faces a tariff test

256. UK’s red tape cut should follow business world’s dotted lines

257. Economists forecast slowing US growth and increased inflation

258. Labour unveils disability benefits reforms that aim to save more than 5bn

259. Criminals use AI in ‘proxy’ attacks for hostile powers, warns Europol

260. The Eurozone’s moment of truth

261. Reeves promises to scrap ‘unnecessary’ financial market reporting rules

262. UK offers bumper pay package for new national armaments guru

263. The ancient Chinese didn’t just invent gunpowder — they created the picnic

264. First-time buyers move further out of London as property costs bite

265. The US establishment is scared of its own shadow

266. Is credit cruising for a bruising?

267. FT ranking: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2025

268. Mexico’s Sheinbaum enjoys Trump bump in popularity at home

269. Costco leans on mainland China suppliers as US tariffs bite

270. Investors slash US equity holdings by most ever, BofA survey shows

271. The Conservatives complicate the politics of net zero for Labour

272. Sterling climbs above 1.30 for first time since November

273. VR headsets and pulled pork join UK inflation basket

274. Baltic states and Poland recommend leaving anti-landmine agreement

275. Close Brothers swings to loss as banks brace for potential car finance redress costs

276. Small-cap stocks are not signalling recession

277. BYD shares hit record high on 5-minute EV charging claims

278. Can Trump extract concessions on Ukraine from Putin over the phone?

279. Indonesian stocks tumble 7% on concerns over economy

280. Jack Ma’s AI comeback

281. Short sellers make 16bn profit from Tesla’s share price plunge

282. Why do people keep buying printers they hate?

283. Merz ‘confident’ about Germany’s make-or-break spending vote

284. Europe’s defence spending spree risks debt crisis, warns Dutch politician

285. Indian billionaire Mittal weighs up increasing his BT stake

286. Starmer is zigging where Blair zagged

287. How the Maga beauty look swept America

288. London expands CCTV network in ‘tech race against crime’

289. Trump’s policies set to cool growth and lift inflation, economists say

290. Why Europe can’t rely on French nuclear umbrella alone

291. Hong Kong’s best views? From the water

292. Europe courts US scientists fleeing Trump crackdown

293. Bet on Nigerian recovery draws investors seeking to dodge trade wars

294. Asian defence stocks soar to record highs as Europe prepares to re-arm

295. Israel carries out strikes in Gaza

296. India’s 1bn bet on the creator economy

297. UK trade minister seeks to fend off threat of US tariffs

298. Google parent Alphabet in talks to buy cyber security group Wiz for 30bn

299. Alphabet spins off laser-based internet project from ‘moonshot’ hub

300. UK cracks down on civil service credit cards after spending quadruples