The early 2000s were the high point for this horizon of the future. The great cities of Asia — Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing but also Mumbai and Bengaluru — joined the list of “global cities”.

Germany and France hit out at the long-awaited EU-US trade deal on Monday, warning it would wound the bloc’s economy, as the euro slid against the dollar. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the ...

Zhuang Yanfang, an educator and owner of three kindergartens in Jinhua, a city in China’s prosperous coastal Zhejiang province, decided to turn one of her facilities, which at its peak had boasted 270 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During this year’s Super Bowl, American viewers were given a blast from the past when food chain Carl’s Jr once ...

The political shocks of the past decade are partly about stagnant societies craving drama Janan Ganesh Add to myFT Get instant alerts for this topic Manage your delivery channels here Remove from myFT ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich lashed out at five western governments a day after they sanctioned ...

Elon Musk’s xAI is preparing to raise more money from investors in a deal that could value the artificial intelligence company as high as $200bn — 10 times its value early last year, according to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BYD has launched its cheapest and smallest electric vehicle in the UK, as it takes Chinese carmakers’ battle ...

PwC is laying off about 1,500 employees in the US, becoming the latest Big Four firm to make cuts in the wake of historically low staff turnover. The lay-offs amounted to 2 per cent of PwC US’s 75,000 ...

Sunak on Wednesday said he wanted “more clarity, not more emotion” in the debate around net zero as he threw out plans for tougher rules on energy efficiency; gave rural homes an extra nine years to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A bitter fight over alleged corporate espionage involving two of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups took a new ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish has filed for a US initial public offering as the Peter Thiel-backed group seeks to ...