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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright,” sings Bruce Springsteen in his 1975 anthem Thunder Road. “Oh, and that’s alright with me.” This iconic tune from New Jersey’s unofficial …
Russia is developing a new space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon, according to intelligence shared by the US government with Congress and European allies. Few details are available, so it is hard to know how serious any potential threat might be. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives intelligence …
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Russia has sentenced a prominent human rights activist to two and a half years in prison, in the latest sign of President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly brutal crackdown on critics of …
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ursula von der Leyen said windfall profits from Russian frozen assets should be used to buy weapons for Ukraine as discussions intensified between European allies about how to continue …
The legendary Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series V8 isn’t quite dead… but imminent Australian emissions standards mean the hangman’s noose is closer than ever. Orders for the LC70 V8 remain closed as Toyota Australia works through a significant backlog; at one point, dealers were quoting wait times of four years “or …
© Bloomberg House building output will not recover until 2025 as the property market takes a hit from higher borrowing costs, according to Taylor Wimpey, one of the UK’s largest housebuilders. The FTSE 100 group, which built just over 10,000 homes last year, down from around 14,000 in 2022, projected …
England’s town halls are being “forced to the pawnshop” in an unsustainable fire sale of assets aimed at temporarily staving off bankruptcy, councils and experts have warned. Local authorities are preparing to sell off hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of land and buildings as a long-term funding squeeze shows …
Volvo and Lotus parent Geely released its first electric ute in 2022, but it has been available only with rear-wheel drive. That’s about to change. The Chinese giant’s fledgling Radar brand has revealed an all-wheel drive version of its RD6 ute called the Horizon, which includes all-wheel drive and more …
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The elections taking place around the world this year are some of the most consequential in modern history — and yet they somehow have all the appeal of a contest for …
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a science commentator Should a corporate figure hold the purse strings for publicly funded UK science? The idea has emerged after Dame Ottoline Leyser said she would step …