Houthis to limit their attacks on international shipping off Yemen
The announcement brings the Houthis closer to ending their assault on ships crossing the waters surrounding Yemen, which has severely restricted trade through the vital Red Sea passage. Shipowners ...
Dollar tumbles as Trump shies away from trade tariffs
The US dollar tumbled on Monday ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after the incoming president’s officials indicated he would not immediately launch trade tariffs against some of the US’s largest ...
Turow’s courtrooms, Philby’s murky mystery — cracking new crime fiction
From innocent to guilty, Los Angeles to Oxford, stories of guns, gangs, missing children — and the theft of rare eggs ...
Companies should step off the quarterly report treadmill
Critics argue that reducing reporting frequency might lead to market volatility or uneven access to information. However, experience shows these concerns can be addressed through robust continuous ...
Weight-loss drugs reduce risk of Alzheimer’s, large study shows
Analysis of drugs such as Ozempic finds a lower health risk for 42 conditions but a higher rate of disorders such as arthritis ...
Inauguration live: Donald Trump to stop short of imposing tariffs in burst of executive orders
Donald Trump will launch his second White House term with aggressive moves to cut immigration and boost oil and gas production, but stopped short of imposing long-expected tariffs ...
UK government rejects attempt to block EU law in Northern Ireland
The UK government has rejected the first attempt by Northern Ireland’s unionist parties to block the application of updated EU legislation in the region, saying the key test was not met.
Roche descendant André Hoffmann on pharma, feuds and family business
Hoffmann has been vice-chair of Roche since 2006 and a board director since 1996. Among many other roles, he is a trustee of ...
What’s the value of Trump’s new memecoin?
Donald Trump’s re-election as US president has brought many firsts. The launch of an official cryptocurrency on Friday might be the most surprising. This token has no inherent value. But depending on ...
Five predictions for Trump’s first 100 days
Rana, having lived through the first Trump administration as an FT editor, the one thing I learned is that making forecasts about what he will do as president is a fool’s errand. He’s just too ...
WG Sebald’s Silent Catastrophes — dense literary essays on Austrian writers
The case of WG Sebald is somewhere between the two. When Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was just achieving his deserved fame as the author of remarkable prose works including ...
Chess: Gukesh wins first game as world champion from the brink of defeat
Gukesh Dommaraju played and won his first competitive game as world champion on Saturday, but only after surviving a totally lost position. The 18-year-old Indian, who took the crown last month from ...