Libyan army chief killed in Turkey plane crash (www.ft.com)
Zelenskyy open to demilitarised zone if Russia pulls back (www.ft.com)
The absurdity of a mummers’ Christmas (www.ft.com)
How a straw-hatted anime pirate became a symbol of Gen Z dissent (www.ft.com)
EU foreign aid takes transactional turn with Africa minerals push (www.ft.com)
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules (www.ft.com)
Saudi’s sway is here to stay (www.ft.com)
‘A lot of gold’: the business of dressing priests for Christmas (www.ft.com)
South Korea offers tax breaks on overseas stock sales to stem currency’s slide (www.ft.com)
Pakistan sells indebted state carrier in privatisation win (www.ft.com)
BoJ to continue tightening gradually in 2026 (www.ft.com)
Investors bet on smaller private equity funds to break deal drought (www.ft.com)
Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas for first time since Gaza war (www.ft.com)
‘A place of welcome’: Yorkshire town rallies round to help asylum seekers (www.ft.com)
Top Shell auditor leaves EY role as regulators probe independence breaches (www.ft.com)
EU spent less on US energy after 750bn Trump trade deal (www.ft.com)
Tech groups shift 120bn of AI data centre debt off balance sheets (www.ft.com)
Year in a word: Rare earths (www.ft.com)
Japanese pen maker raises price of its bestseller for first time in 40 years (www.ft.com)
Banks and traders race to capitalise on gold’s historic rally (www.ft.com)
No, you can’t tell when something was written by AI (www.ft.com)
Subscription overload is exhausting Americans (www.ft.com)
‘The gap is widening’: inside Donald Trump’s K-shaped economy (www.ft.com)
One in seven FTSE 100 companies changed bosses this year (www.ft.com)
The slow death of Britain’s TV channels (www.ft.com)
Crypto deals running at record pace with more expected in 2026 (www.ft.com)
The New Byzantines by Sean Mathews — is Greece turning its back on the west? (www.ft.com)
A master sushi chef’s guide to finding balance in Miami (www.ft.com)
One of the world’s hottest IPO markets shows signs of weakness (www.ft.com)
Behind the Money: KKR, Bain and private equity’s push into Japan (www.ft.com)
Swamp Notes: The Bethlehem Project (www.ft.com)
Trump administration to overhaul lottery system for H-1B visas (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Panama Canal ports deal hits impasse after China’s Cosco demands majority stake (www.ft.com)
Modi turns his focus to reforming India’s economy (www.ft.com)
Epstein files appear to show former Prince Andrew asked Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’ (www.ft.com)
Trump administration accuses China of unfair chip trade practices (www.ft.com)
US economy hotter than expected in third quarter (www.ft.com)
Israel’s defence minister pledges to resettle northern Gaza (www.ft.com)
US economy grew at 4.3% rate in third quarter (www.ft.com)
Government forced into climbdown on inheritance tax for farmers (www.ft.com)
Epstein appointed Staley and Summers as executors of his will (www.ft.com)
Ryanair fined 256mn in Italy for ‘abusive strategy’ against online travel agents (www.ft.com)
The ECB is on hold for an extended period (www.ft.com)
Copper price hits record high on concerns over tariffs and shortages (www.ft.com)
Russia launches massive drone attack on Ukraine before winter holidays (www.ft.com)
France to approve budget rollover to avoid US-style shutdown (www.ft.com)
‘We have to have’ Greenland, says Trump (www.ft.com)
The year in review (part two) (www.ft.com)
John Elkann’s year to forget: a pile-up of problems from family to Ferrari (www.ft.com)
‘A stream of negativity and abuse’: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X? (www.ft.com)
Whisky galore: Trump’s tariffs and cost of living create glut of undrunk Scotch (www.ft.com)
EU moves against cheap plastics imports as recycling plants shut (www.ft.com)
Ares Management chief eyes private equity as group’s next target (www.ft.com)
The good, the bad and the ugly of Britain’s labour market reforms (www.ft.com)
Europe’s largest shipbuilder calls for standardisation of vessel specifications (www.ft.com)
Dynastic Jewels combines stunning stones with compelling stories (www.ft.com)
Private credit firms pile into consumer debt as risk-taking mounts (www.ft.com)
America’s risky bet on hydrocarbons might hurt it in the AI race (www.ft.com)
AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record (www.ft.com)
The prison island where Turkey locked its past (www.ft.com)
House prices fall in half of London boroughs (www.ft.com)
Hats off! (www.ft.com)
The kids aren’t all right: schooling joins long list of Gaza war casualties (www.ft.com)
Russia’s wage growth slows as wartime economy cools (www.ft.com)
Year in a word: AI bubble (www.ft.com)
Is Christmas as good for the economy as it used to be? (www.ft.com)
Caviar and foie gras? China is becoming a luxury food powerhouse (www.ft.com)
More H-1B visa chaos (www.ft.com)
Novo Nordisk weight-loss drug wins US approval as a daily pill (www.ft.com)
ByteDance plans 23bn AI spending spree to keep pace with US rivals (www.ft.com)
Donald Trump announces ‘Trump-class’ battleships for US Navy’s ‘Golden Fleet’ (www.ft.com)
Frustrations deepen over UK-EU trade terms, business survey finds (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Japan official warns of ‘deep concern’ over the yen’s weakness (www.ft.com)
Canada names Mark Wiseman as US ambassador (www.ft.com)
The year of the tariff (www.ft.com)
Alphabet agrees to buy Intersect Power for 4.75bn (www.ft.com)
The seamy side of Westminster, then and now — the best new books on politics (www.ft.com)
Peltz’s Trian and General Catalyst lead 7.4bn takeover of Janus Henderson (www.ft.com)
US halts offshore wind licences on national security concerns (www.ft.com)
Middle powers face a new age of uncertainty (www.ft.com)
UK to ban boiling lobsters alive as animal welfare standards tightened (www.ft.com)
Larry Ellison gives 40bn personal backing to Warner Bros Discovery bid (www.ft.com)
The EU’s old protectionist instinct outweighs its new geopolitical ambition (www.ft.com)
North Sea operator Harbour buys Gulf of Mexico oil group for 3.2bn (www.ft.com)
Gold and silver hit record highs on geopolitical tensions (www.ft.com)
China hits EU dairy industry with levies of up to 42.7% (www.ft.com)
Russian general killed in Moscow car bomb (www.ft.com)
Donald Trump names special envoy for Greenland (www.ft.com)
The year in review (part one) (www.ft.com)
The asset management year in review (www.ft.com)
Hawkish Fed overtones not expected to last long into 2026 (www.ft.com)
Ministers set to lay out details for ‘Northern Powerhouse’ rail scheme in new year (www.ft.com)
UK cannot ignore deep-sea threat from Russia, head of Navy warns (www.ft.com)
Apollo cuts risk and stockpiles cash in preparation for market turmoil (www.ft.com)
BoE alternative scenarios failing to bring clarity to rates policy, economists warn (www.ft.com)
US mortgage lenders insure against artificial intelligence screening errors (www.ft.com)
Year in a Word: Remigration (www.ft.com)
What David Ellison can learn from a hostile bid battle of his father (www.ft.com)
Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ minister pushes major reforms for 2026 (www.ft.com)
How upbeat battlefield briefings are fuelling Putin’s confidence (www.ft.com)
Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement (www.ft.com)
How one PE group’s deals show the risks of firms selling to themselves (www.ft.com)
UAE’s Jewish community lays low in wake of Gaza war (www.ft.com)
London’s best new restaurants of 2025 (www.ft.com)
China uses green tech dominance to take early lead in clean fuels race (www.ft.com)
How ‘Made in Britain’ became cool again for heritage clothing brands (www.ft.com)
Is Switzerland losing its place in the world? (www.ft.com)
Happy K-shaped Christmas (www.ft.com)
The stock market winners and losers of 2025 (www.ft.com)
Japan official warns on yen’s ‘sudden’ weakness (www.ft.com)
Trail hunting to be banned in England and Wales (www.ft.com)
US steps up blockade of Venezuela by seeking to board third oil tanker (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Indonesia sends military to help clear forests at rapid pace (www.ft.com)
Fraudsters use AI to fake artwork authenticity and ownership (www.ft.com)
Europe needs strategic purpose matched with action (www.ft.com)
JPMorgan questioned Tricolor’s accounting a year before its collapse (www.ft.com)
Betting against New York is always a losing proposition (www.ft.com)
Israel to build 19 more settlements in occupied West Bank (www.ft.com)
Manchester police refuse to say if synagogue attacker’s phone was examined before incident (www.ft.com)
Foreign buyers snap up cheap UK companies as dealmaking hits new high (www.ft.com)
Market upheavals drive biggest gains since 2008 for macro hedge funds (www.ft.com)
A new maritime security architecture for the UK and her neighbours (www.ft.com)
A year of Trumpian attacks on the rules-based international order (www.ft.com)
Will markets stage a last-minute Santa rally? (www.ft.com)
Sweden boards sanctioned Russian vessel off its coast (www.ft.com)
How Bill Clinton became the focus of the Epstein files (www.ft.com)
In praise of male courage (www.ft.com)
Inside Tencent’s deal to use Nvidia’s best AI chips in Japan (www.ft.com)
Fidelity pledges crackdown on excessive corporate pay (www.ft.com)
Alcohol consumption falls to record low in Britain (www.ft.com)
Role reversal: how foot-dragging France blindsided newly assertive Berlin (www.ft.com)
Wool is no longer the black sheep of agricultural commodities (www.ft.com)
Chinese stocks cool on weak economic data (www.ft.com)
The unlikely Arab kingmaker aiming to sway Israel’s next election (www.ft.com)
Has Kemi Badenoch steadied the Tories’ sinking ship? (www.ft.com)
Indonesia calls in military to help clear forests at rapid pace (www.ft.com)
Year in a word: Affordability (www.ft.com)
US coastguard boards tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in Caribbean (www.ft.com)
US justice department under fire for removing Trump image from Epstein files (www.ft.com)
The ‘outrageous’ cost of sports tickets (www.ft.com)
Robey Warshaw partners share 40mn profit (www.ft.com)
America’s current account woes (www.ft.com)
Struggling vintage champagne market begins to fizz again (www.ft.com)
The case for denial (www.ft.com)
How a failed baseball player and ex-stock broker became a major arms dealer (www.ft.com)
Brazil commits to rapid energy roadmap deadline for key ministries (www.ft.com)
Trump fails to put Epstein behind him with partial release of files (www.ft.com)
EU plan to relax petrol car ban dismissed by Fiat maker (www.ft.com)
Here comes the sun: light amid the UK gloom (www.ft.com)
Can a sacramental winery in New York get its groove back? (www.ft.com)
Pitting Nimbys against Yimbys is a bad idea (www.ft.com)
Have we reached a tipping point on public debt? (www.ft.com)
The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are getting a glow up (www.ft.com)
Learning Yoruba with my daughter (www.ft.com)
The money lessons we wish we’d been taught at school (www.ft.com)
Australia’s biggest pension fund to cut global stocks allocation on AI concerns (www.ft.com)
What to know about the new Epstein files release (www.ft.com)
Australia confronts grief and discord in wake of Bondi Beach massacre (www.ft.com)
Congress’ healthcare fight carries big consequences (www.ft.com)
Secretary of state defends Trump’s foreign policy (www.ft.com)
Delaware high court reinstates Musk’s 56bn Tesla pay package (www.ft.com)
US justice department releases thousands of Epstein files (www.ft.com)
US Christmas tree growers boosted by Trump tariffs (www.ft.com)
Roomba rival bets on AI to clean up market for robot vacuum cleaners (www.ft.com)
Quizmas special: Political Fix’s 2025 nerd-out! (www.ft.com)
UK rules out using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine (www.ft.com)
Don’t believe the fake gloom about London (www.ft.com)
The SEC is heading into dangerous territory (www.ft.com)
Christmas trimming (www.ft.com)
Brussels sprouts buck trend for rising Christmas food prices (www.ft.com)
Jamieri, a Georgian treasure trove in Brooklyn (www.ft.com)
London St Pancras revamp aims to cut Eurostar waiting time to 15 minutes (www.ft.com)
It’s beginning to look a lot like holiday job season (www.ft.com)
How Ford’s bet on an electric ‘truck of the future’ led to a 19.5bn writedown (www.ft.com)
Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over the threat from Russia (www.ft.com)
UK electoral commission slams delays to local elections (www.ft.com)
US to release ‘several hundred thousand’ Epstein files on Friday (www.ft.com)
Satellite images track Trump’s squeeze on Venezuela (www.ft.com)
Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money (www.ft.com)
The rest of the west is our only bet (www.ft.com)
Putin claims Ukraine is ‘on the retreat’ (www.ft.com)
Which genius from history would have been the best investor? (www.ft.com)
Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘We’re on the cusp of something really exciting’ (www.ft.com)
Lululemon should roll out the red yoga mat for Elliott (www.ft.com)
Ukraine’s wartime battery boom (www.ft.com)
ECB warns banks against excessive use of risk-transfer deals (www.ft.com)
Europe shows its commitment to Ukraine — but not unequivocally (www.ft.com)
Inflation risk is still under-appreciated by investors (www.ft.com)
BoE caution will not prevent further loosening in 2026 (www.ft.com)
France will not agree budget by year-end, says prime minister (www.ft.com)
China blamed for UK government cyber attack (www.ft.com)
Germany’s multiyear recession will only fade slowly in 2026, Bundesbank warns (www.ft.com)
Billionaire backs shake-up at FDA: ex-Enron trader upends drug policy (www.ft.com)
Unpopular Labour is running out of opportunities to change its fate (www.ft.com)
BoJ delivers a hawkish rate increase (www.ft.com)
How Merz’s summit plan on Russian assets backfired (www.ft.com)
UK retail sales drop unexpectedly as economy struggles (www.ft.com)
Inflation: little to trust (www.ft.com)
EU turns to joint debt for Ukraine after botching Russian asset loan (www.ft.com)
Sony buys Snoopy (www.ft.com)
Bumper Christmas for air travel as 300mn take to the skies (www.ft.com)
Winter storms flood Gaza as population remains stuck in tents (www.ft.com)
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics (www.ft.com)
Behemoth bills are causing hold-ups in the Lords (www.ft.com)
America Inc’s new boardroom trend: the chief exiting officer (www.ft.com)
Tether-owned firm sells crypto miner to companies run by its founder (www.ft.com)
Prediction markets and the casino mentality of 2025 (www.ft.com)
The Brexit implementation fiasco (www.ft.com)
India’s bid to rival the Chinese navy (www.ft.com)
Japan raises interest rates to highest level in 30 years (www.ft.com)
Three numbers that matter (www.ft.com)
EU to give 90bn loan to Ukraine (www.ft.com)
India’s parliament clears full foreign ownership in insurance (www.ft.com)
China boosts AI chip output by upgrading older ASML machines (www.ft.com)
TikTok signs deal to create US joint venture (www.ft.com)
Over-50s should work for longer to ease pressures of ageing society, say Lords (www.ft.com)
Flawed inflation data dashes Trump’s hopes of a quick affordability victory (www.ft.com)
Brussels delays signing of EU-Mercosur trade deal until January (www.ft.com)
Nike shares tumble as weak China sales dent faith in turnaround (www.ft.com)
Marijuana stocks tumble as Trump reclassifies drug but fails to legalise it (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: US approves 11bn arms package for Taiwan (www.ft.com)
Trump to be added to name of Washington’s Kennedy Center (www.ft.com)
Jefferies’ 2025 in review (www.ft.com)
Farage avoids police probe into election spending (www.ft.com)
Trump family deal with fusion energy firm adds to complicated UK-US ties (www.ft.com)
Latin America swings to the right (www.ft.com)
French culture minister under investigation for corruption (www.ft.com)
US regulator loosens some compliance burdens for Citigroup (www.ft.com)
Trump is on to something: finance and fusion have much in common (www.ft.com)
Christian Turner to be new UK ambassador to US (www.ft.com)
2.5bn Leeds tram project delayed following review (www.ft.com)
Bill Gates and Sergey Brin among newly released Epstein photos (www.ft.com)
Motability boss handed bumper pay rise (www.ft.com)
Ukraine seals restructuring of controversial growth-linked debt (www.ft.com)
A change of approach to the youth unemployment problem (www.ft.com)
Lawyers Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader set to merge in record 3.6bn deal (www.ft.com)
Local elections at risk of delay for millions across England (www.ft.com)
Lenders set to lower mortgage rates in early 2026 (www.ft.com)
All trials of UK’s Ajax armoured vehicles paused after another soldier injured (www.ft.com)
Drop in CPI reduces Fed dilemma on rates (www.ft.com)
Bill Ackman strikes 2bn deal for insurer in bid to build ‘modern Berkshire Hathaway’ (www.ft.com)
Netanyahu’s plan to take charge of October 7 panel sparks anger (www.ft.com)
Former Tory donor hit with UK sanctions over alleged Russian energy role (www.ft.com)
The hard politics of climate overshoot (www.ft.com)
Trump uses rare primetime address to defend his economic record (www.ft.com)
ECB holds rates at 2% with broadly neutral guidance (www.ft.com)
US inflation unexpectedly falls to 2.7% (www.ft.com)
ECB holds interest rates at 2% (www.ft.com)
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up (www.ft.com)
EU agrees rules to boost retail investment in capital markets (www.ft.com)
BoE cuts rates with relatively dovish guidance (www.ft.com)
Monetary Policy Radar preview: the BoJ will raise rates again (www.ft.com)
Food production no longer profitable for English farms, says review (www.ft.com)
BoE cuts rates by quarter point to 3.75% (www.ft.com)
Trump media agrees 6bn merger deal with Google-backed fusion energy company (www.ft.com)
The myth of the imminent Conservative revival (www.ft.com)
The rise of two wests threatens the democratic model (www.ft.com)
US activist targets Premier Inn owner Whitbread (www.ft.com)
The EU’s economic security blanket is patchy and thin (www.ft.com)
Europe’s second-class citizens (www.ft.com)
Netanyahu approves 35bn Israel-Egypt gas deal (www.ft.com)
Meta’s LeCun targets 3bn valuation for new AI start-up (www.ft.com)
Expect more militant industrial relations under new Unison leader (www.ft.com)
Could revealing Rishi Sunak’s cowboy boots ruin Brex-Tex relations? (www.ft.com)
EU leaders vow to agree funding for Ukraine (www.ft.com)
Two views of AI and Big Tech (www.ft.com)
New York hedge fund approached by Warner shareholder to buy CNN (www.ft.com)
Can Venezuela’s Maduro survive Trump’s oil blockade? (www.ft.com)
US approves 11bn arms sale to Taiwan (www.ft.com)
Zelenskyy to confront De Wever in stand-off over Russian assets loan (www.ft.com)
Donald Trump defends record on economy in combative White House address (www.ft.com)
Australia to tighten hate speech laws after Bondi attack (www.ft.com)
UK to water down regulations for financial benchmarks (www.ft.com)
Private equity’s ‘steady eddy’ gets rocked (www.ft.com)
Canada defends US exemption from global minimum tax deal (www.ft.com)
Scrapping juries would save less than 10% of court time, according to research (www.ft.com)
Elliott gears up for Barnes & Noble and Waterstones listing (www.ft.com)
Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen (www.ft.com)
How a Swiss compromise could save UBS billions (www.ft.com)
Carmakers sour on EU’s ‘disastrous’ petrol engine rule changes (www.ft.com)
Berlin launches ‘Germany Fund’ to lure private equity investors (www.ft.com)
Putin’s retaliation threat over frozen assets rattles EU capitals (www.ft.com)
A Noma graduate is reimagining the French canon in Paris (www.ft.com)
The argument Iranians have in private (www.ft.com)
Oilfield service companies pivot to data centres as drilling market slows (www.ft.com)
The coming battle over the EU’s budget shake-up (www.ft.com)
Inside the ‘industrial scale’ Trump pardon machine (www.ft.com)
India’s central bank governor cheers ‘goldilocks’ economy (www.ft.com)
Trump takes aim at South Africa (www.ft.com)
Japan’s 580bn hidden asset? In the back of the cupboard (www.ft.com)
South Korea’s market moonshot is a model for other economies (www.ft.com)
BP picks Woodside boss Meg O’Neill as new chief executive (www.ft.com)
Amazon overhauls AI team as chief declares an ‘inflection point’ (www.ft.com)
FirstFT: Oracle’s 10bn Michigan data centre dealt a setback (www.ft.com)
Who matters in the battle for Warner Bros? (www.ft.com)
iRobot CEO says previous management was ‘in denial’ over group’s troubles (www.ft.com)
Lula threatens to walk away from EU-Mercosur trade deal (www.ft.com)
Elon Musk makes an unhelpful cameo in Warner Bros buyout (www.ft.com)
Jimmy Lai’s conviction is ominous for Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
US Congress repeals Syria ‘Caesar’ sanctions (www.ft.com)