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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Pollution
    Europe’s fight to get rid of ‘forever chemicals’

    A man-made molecule called TFA is seeping into waterways across the continent. But industry executives warn about the cost of EU efforts to eradicate pollution

    Boiler of a chemical plant in front of a color-coded map of Europe
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    The fate of Gaza: ‘It all depends on Trump’

    Heavy casualties and the risk of widespread starvation have led to new pressure on Israel to halt its offensive. But US influence will be decisive

    Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Donald Trump
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK economy
    The pitch for growth: will football help regenerate England’s cities?

    Clubs in several big cities want to use new stadiums to redevelop entire areas. But they seek government funding to make the projects work

    Montage image of stadiums in Liverpool and Manchester
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    South Africa
    Is South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa running out of time?

    He may have survived a bruising encounter with Donald Trump, but the veteran ANC politician is facing forbidding challenges at home and abroad

    Montage image of Ramaphosa, ANC and EFF activists
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    The lessons from China’s dominance in manufacturing

    Beijing’s aggressive investments in domestic production have strained trade relations with western partners. But can the world learn from it?

    Xi Jinping with images of industry in the background
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    South Korea politics & policy
    The ‘quiet’ crisis brewing between the US and South Korea

    Trade tensions are building, the military alliance is under pressure and Korean domestic politics are fraught. Can Seoul negotiate a way out?

    Montage of images of Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump and Lee Jae Myung
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    Food diet
    Robert F Kennedy Jr’s battle with Big Food

    The US health secretary is defying the industry to improve America’s diet. Is he going about it the right way?

    Robert F Kennedy Jr, a pack of Cheetos, a fizzy drink and the US Congress
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Technology sector
    Can Google still dominate search in the age of AI chatbots?

    For the first time in a generation, its monopoly is under threat. After two years of false starts, the company is trying to regain the initiative

    Montage of images of Sundar Pichai, the Google logo and a smartphone with ‘Meet AI Mode’ on the screen
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Commodities
    How the US plans to break China’s stranglehold on lithium

    New technology that extracts the metal from underground brines has been compared to the shale revolution

    Montage of images showing the Standard Lithium extraction plant in southern Arkansas, a locator map and a hand holding a lithium rich rock
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Space industry
    Has Starlink already won the new space race?

    Elon Musk’s satellite system dominates the battle for the future of global connectivity. Amazon and Chinese rivals are working to catch up

    Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos along with the SpaceX and Amazon logos
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Mozambique
    Total’s risky bet on a natural gas megaproject in southern Africa

    The French energy giant was forced to pause a huge LNG scheme in Mozambique after Islamist militants launched a deadly attack. Is the region safe enough for it to restart?

    A satellite view of Total’s Mozambique LNG project on the Afungi peninsula
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    US economy
    Will Trump’s tariff climbdown save the US from recession?

    Markets cheered the deal with China. But away from Wall Street, confidence is plummeting and prices are on the rise

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    The AI revolution changing how we predict the weather

    Rapidly advancing technology is helping meteorologists to make more accurate and detailed forecasts even further into the future

    A picture of a hand holding a smartphone. On the screen is an imagine of a large cyclone
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Flatter or confront? How world leaders are dealing with Trump

    Four months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, governments are still agonising over how to approach an erratic, unpredictable American president

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong

    Desperate to source munitions, Kyiv paid foreign brokers for weapons and shells that were sometimes unusable or never arrived

    A Ukrainian soldier prepares artillery shells for use on the front line in the Donetsk region. The war has left Kyiv vulnerable to the ruthless vagaries of the international weapons market
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Industrial metals
    Deep-sea mining: Can the US turn science fiction into reality?

    Donald Trump’s executive order on undersea minerals has encouraged mining companies — but critics say it will damage the environment and struggle to make money

    Montage of a mineral nodule at the bottom of the ocean overlaid with graphics of deepsea mining equipment that operates at different depths
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Department of Government Efficiency
    What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?

    Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings

    A montage with Elon Musk in the foreground, with the US Capitol and dollar bills in the background
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    EU capital markets union
    Can Europe finally fix its capital markets?

    Stung by its lack of competitiveness, the EU is making a new push to create a deep financial market. Some investors believe this time could be different

    FT montage of Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, and Mario Draghi, the former European central banker and Italian premier set over the ECB building and euro coins
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Electric power
    How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution

    Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

    Montage of electric power, solar panels, wind turbines, Chinese flag and line chart
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    India-Pakistan tensions
    India and Pakistan: a conflict in the hands of two religious strongmen

    Indian leader Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir both believe they are fighting a just war against a sworn enemy

    India’s Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s general Asim Munir are superimposed over a scene of devastation caused by air strikes on buildings
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Gates Foundation
    Bill Gates is giving away $200bn. Can his plans survive in the Trump era?

    The philanthropist intends to spend his fortune over the next 20 years. But government budget cuts threaten his ambitions in global health

    Montage image of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Media
    Is Japanese anime the next global IP gold mine?

    Japan’s distinctive cartoons are attracting worldwide audiences, Hollywood studios and private equity companies alike. Who will reap the rewards?

    Montage image of Son Goku from the ‘Dragon Ball’ series; Doraemon, the robotic cat; and Totoro from Studio Ghibli’s animated fantasy ‘My Neighbour Totoro’
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Italian banks
    How dealmaking fever hit Italy’s banking sector

    Several transactions are on the table with billionaire investors, overseas shareholders and domestic politicians all affected

  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    China’s diplomatic charm offensive

    Leaders are touring the world both to push back against US influence and also to shore up its export markets as its trade surplus rises

    Montage image of Xi Jinping, a world map and a line chart
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Climate change
    ‘Sitting ducks’: the cities most vulnerable to climate disasters

    Extreme weather means wildfires and flooding are becoming more likely, posing a risk to urban areas around the world

    Burnt woodland surrounds homes in Varnavas, north-east of the Greek capital, last summer. Experts warn that the wider Athens area has the ‘perfect mix’ of elements needed for a significant wildfire
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