Is the UK’s heritage listing system fit for purpose?
In a matrix of climate, housing and energy crises, managing Europe’s oldest housing stock grows ever more complex. What does ...
Inhotim, Brazil’s vast open-air art gallery, gets its first hotel
Set amid tropical gardens, Inhotim boasts more than 500 works of modern art — and now visitors can spend the night ...
Germany’s defence contractors turn to car supplier workers to fill vacancies
Air defence radar maker Hensoldt offers to hire laid off engineers from Bosch and Continental as automotive job cuts rise ...
Japan to loosen rules on rice reserves as prices soar
Japan is set to loosen the rules controlling the country’s tightly guarded rice reserve for the first time as domestic prices ...
The big haul
On January 10, 2025, NeoGenomics, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Christopher Smith, the Company’s Chief Executive ...
Wise fined $2.5mn in US for misleading fee advertising
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday demanded Wise pay a $2mn civil penalty and $450,000 in customer ...
How Taiwan became a quiet bond market superpower
Starting in the early 2000s, Taiwan started to run large current account surpluses of 5- 7 per cent of GDP. That’s big. At the time it was only really dwarfed by China. And while China’s surplus fell ...
In search of a radiant radiator?
Radiators can be multifunctional in other ways too. Eskimo’s Outline Supermirror has a reflective, polished stainless-steel ...
Beirut has suffered endless catastrophes — its art galleries offer a glimmer of hope
Amid conflict and economic woes, businesses have struggled in the capital — but dealers and curators sense the tide is turning ...
Former national security adviser Jake Sullivan: ‘The core engines of American power are humming’
The Biden administration official on leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand’, export controls on AI chips — and why war with China is not inevitable ...
What’s behind the boom in car parking charge tickets?
Only local authorities can issue fines, says Scott Dixon, a consumer advocate and founder of The Complaints Resolver blog. Parking charge notices often “look the same [as local authority tickets] and ...
FT Weekend Quiz: road safety measure, Oswald Cobblepot and British plane
Oswald Cobblepot is the real name of which comic-book villain? What’s the nickname of the English king who ruled from 1189 to 1199? Which British first world war plane shot down more enemy aircraft ...