TotalEnergies failed to convince Joe Biden’s team to back $20bn African project
TotalEnergies failed to convince the Biden administration to unblock almost $5bn in loans for its controversial Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas project before it left office, as one of Africa’s ...
Louis Vuitton chief on F1 tie-up: ‘Sport is part of the culture, the life of young people’
Pietro Beccari is betting that the label’s sole title sponsorship of F1 will help it evolve from a fashion brand into a ‘cultural’ one ...
On board Nanusa, a design jewel on the Nile
Goya Gallagher, founder of new Cairo-based lifestyle brand Anūt Cairo, referenced the Monument in the design of Nanusa, her five-cabin dahabiya (a style of traditional sailing boat that has been a ...
Transcript: Bangladesh students win a chance for change
The Bangladesh student and people’s uprising of July and August last year overthrew the government of Sheikh Hasina, who had been running the country since 2009. She was widely accused of corruption ...
Inside Trump’s first strikes at Biden’s climate legacy
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady yesterday, defying Donald Trump’s calls for deep reductions. The Fed’s pause on cuts is a setback for the renewable energy industry, which has ...
Has Europe’s great hope for AI missed its moment?
Mistral AI was hailed as a potential global leader in the technology. But it has lost ground to US rivals — and now China’s emerging star ...
Chinese managers to cut QDII fund fees for domestic investors
Chinese authorities have instructed some fund companies to keep management fees for QDII products no higher than 1.2 per cent and custodian fees at no higher than 0.2 per cent, a source at a ...
The Fed ignores Trump’s calls to cut rates
Big Tech earnings season is in full swing, the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady despite pressure from President Donald Trump, and Syria’s new government pressed Moscow about reparations.
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth — layers of a life
With admirable seriousness, Adrian Duncan explores themes of art, religion and decay in a deeply opaque novel about a sculptor looking for meaning ...
EU debates return to Russian gas as part of Ukraine deal
The remaining pipe bringing Russian gas to the bloc is the TurkStream line through Turkey, which provides Hungary with about 7.5 billion cubic metres of gas. Budapest, along with the pro-Russian ...
Trump wiped out dozens of Biden climate initiatives in first week blitz
President upended US efforts to combat climate change and accelerate clean energy development, according to FT analysis ...
‘Like a viper’: Friedrich Merz’s flirt with far right rattles German election
Friedrich Merz’s high-stakes gamble to enlist the far right in pressuring the German government to tighten migration laws has upended the campaign three weeks before general elections.