Why family-friendly policies don’t boost birth rates

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Between 1980 and 2019, the world’s most developed countries roughly tripled their real-terms per capita spending on child benefits, subsided childcare, parental leave and other family-friendly policies. They also saw …

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Moscow attack survivor: four minutes are ‘a whole lifetime’

Dozens of people are packed into the corner of the lobby of a Moscow concert hall, squeezed against a wall and unable to escape as four gunmen fire automatic weapons into the group. Dmitry Saraev, a concert promoter and journalist, was among the people trapped in the corner that night …

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The doctor who caught actress Olivia Munn’s breast cancer also diagnosed her own: ‘I don’t want another woman to go through what I went through’

What are the odds you’ll develop breast cancer in your lifetime? Not a woman’s average risk—13%, according to the American Cancer Society—but your personal risk based on your age, genetics, family history, and other risk factors? That’s a statistic you should know off the top of your head, Dr. Thaïs …

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Junshi Biosciences Announces 2023 Full Year Financial Results and Provides Corporate Updates

SHANGHAI, China, March 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd (Junshi Biosciences, HKEX: 1877; SSE (LON:): 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced its financial results for the full year of 2023 and provided corporate updates. FINANCIAL …

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How Nothing CEO Carl Pei is breaking barriers

Carl Pei, CEO and co-founder of consumer electronics company Nothing, doesn’t believe in labels. “I don’t like people who say that they are an ‘entrepreneur’ or a ‘disruptor’. I think your work should speak for itself,” he says. At 34, the Chinese-Swedish Pei is one of the most recognisable “entrepreneurs” …

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