The early 2000s were the high point for this horizon of the future. The great cities of Asia — Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing but also Mumbai and Bengaluru — joined the list of “global cities”.

Germany and France hit out at the long-awaited EU-US trade deal on Monday, warning it would wound the bloc’s economy, as the euro slid against the dollar. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the ...

Chrysopoeia, commonly known as alchemy, has been pursued by civilisations as far back as ancient Egypt. Now San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion, a start-up focused on using nuclear fusion to generate ...

Twenty-eight countries, including the UK, Canada, Japan and more than a dozen EU nations, have condemned the “drip feeding of aid” and “inhumane killing of civilians” in Gaza, as they demanded an ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland plans to buy a stake in a satellite company that came to prominence by tracking Russian troop movements ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The government has launched a review of the state pension age, starting a process that could increase the ...

Private pension incomes were on track to be 8 per cent lower by 2050, expressed in today’s earnings terms, according to new modelling by the Department for Work and Pensions to be published on Monday.

The North Korean economy largely relies on production of coal, concrete and industrial plastics, and has been kept afloat by food, fuel and fertiliser from neighbouring China, its biggest trading ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Is the EU a good thing? Rows have raged over that question for many years so I turned to the newly ...