Singapore’s DBS reports record profits as long-serving CEO bows out
Piyush Gupta, DBS's long-serving chief executive, signed off his 16-year tenure at south-east Asia’s biggest bank with record ...
Trump to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports
The promised tariffs on steel and aluminium come as Trump has launched his second term with an aggressive trade policy. Last ...
How Hizbollah is using cash and WhatsApp groups to shore up power
After her son, a Hizbollah military officer, was killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon last year, Umm Hassan made lapel pins of his image to commemorate him. When the pain was at its ...
Letter: Shakespeare history play recast as Mar-a-Lago
In “Something of Shakespeare in Trump’s lawyers purge?” (Letters, February 4), your correspondent refers to Dick the Butcher ...
New Zealand loosens ‘golden visa’ rules to attract investors
New Zealand is seeking to attract more wealthy investors by loosening rules tied to so-called ‘golden visas’, dropping an English-language requirement and cutting the number of days that applicants ...
The Copernic Affair podcast review — in search of the truth behind a Paris bombing
A bomb placed on a motorcycle had exploded by a synagogue on the Rue Copernic in the city’s 16th arrondissement. Four people died and 46 were hurt, many of them sustaining life-changing injuries. It ...
Can the nuclear industry find a better way to build?
The sector is hopeful that using copies of established reactors can help keep costs down and prevent delays for new projects ...
Photographer Arlene Gottfried: moments that reveal the life of a city
Arlene Gottfried, who took that photo in 1978, had a knack for catching people with their masks off and their humanity bared. And the New York Historical makes an apt home for her work, since the city ...
EU watchdog warns of resistance to Brussels’ bid to slash red tape
The push to simplify financial rules has gained urgency amid Donald Trump’s broad deregulation agenda in the US. Last month, von der Leyen and ECB president Christine Lagarde wrote in the FT that ...
Kering investors brace for more bad news after Gucci creative chief’s exit
French luxury group to report full-year results this week following latest blow to turnaround plans at its biggest brand ...
Transcript: US dealmaking slides in 2025
China has hit the US with new tariffs. And Wall Street dealmakers are starting 2025 off on the wrong foot. Plus, more companies are turning to bitcoin to boost their share prices. I’m Kasia ...
Is innovation slowing down? With Matt Clancy
He does so in conversation with innovation economist Matt Clancy, who is the author of the New Things Under the Sun blog, and a research fellow at Open Philanthropy, a non-profit foundation based in ...