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Israel threatened to expand its military operation in Rafah after tanks and troops seized the main border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, as international mediators struggled to continue talks aimed at ending the conflict. Israel launched its ground offensive into eastern Rafah on Monday, hours after Hamas said it had accepted a draft proposal of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel has carried out night air strikes on Rafah and said a ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas fell “far from Israel’s necessary requirement”, as international mediators and officials struggled to continue talks to halt fighting

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has a small polling lead over Joe Biden in the critical swing states with six months to go before US voters elect their next president on November 5. It marks a stunning reversal

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Finland has successfully tested its ability to run a war economy and has begun storing military equipment outside its national borders as the Nordic country renowned for its high level of preparedness deals with an

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have spent a fair amount of time dunking on Elon Musk over the years. Among the things I have poured scorn upon are his puerile sense of humour, his asinine “lib-trolling”, his naive war

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. The Tories suffered sobering losses in local elections across England in the last big electoral test before a general election. Labour also trounced the Tories in the parliamentary by-election in Blackpool South – with Reform running

Apple has poached dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google and has created a secretive European laboratory in Zurich, as the tech giant builds a team to battle rivals in developing new AI models and products. According to a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of LinkedIn profiles as well as public job postings and research

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Federal Reserve has signalled that US borrowing costs are likely to remain higher for longer, as a it wrestles with persistent inflation across the world’s biggest economy. The Federal Open Market Committee said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla’s Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has been found in contempt of court and fined $9,000 for repeatedly attacking potential witnesses and jurors in his Manhattan “hush money” case, in violation of a gag order imposed on the former

BNP Paribas and Macquarie have become two of the latest banks to push back their expectations of US interest rate cuts. A team of economists at French bank BNP said in a note that they expect the first Federal Reserve rate cut to take place in December, later than previously anticipated. “In light of stronger-than-expected

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tesla is partnering with Chinese search giant Baidu to deploy mapping and navigation technology in China, as Elon Musk moves closer to rolling out more advanced driver assistance features in the world’s biggest auto market.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an international lawyer and founder of España Mejor, a non-partisan organisation to counteract political disengagement and polarisation Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister, startled the nation last Wednesday when he said he

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk met senior Chinese trade officials in Beijing on Sunday as the Tesla chief faces questions over slowing sales growth for his electric vehicles and data security concerns in the world’s biggest car market.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Topsy-turvy US economic data released this week left markets in a pickle, but still just outside the danger zone.  Official figures revealed on Thursday that the US economy was not necessarily streaking ahead of the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A shortage of aircraft seats is adding to bottlenecks in the industry’s supply chains, hampering plans by airlines to refurbish cabin interiors and unveil new upgraded planes.  Aircraft seats, in particular those for first and business

Microsoft and Google’s owner Alphabet have quashed investor scepticism around the vast sums spent on developing artificial intelligence, after being boosted by rampant corporate demand for their cloud computing services. The combined market value of the two US tech giants rose by more than $250bn on Friday, a day after each reported double-digit revenue growth

Shares of Los Angeles-based social media platform Snap jumped more than 30 per cent after its earnings beat analysts’ expectations as increasing demand for its advertising services boosted sales. The company’s revenue of $1.2bn in the first three months of 2024 was 21 per cent above the same period a year earlier.   Net losses narrowed,

Facing one of the worst stock slumps in Tesla’s 14-year history, Elon Musk was under pressure this week to deliver a reassuring message to investors about its next generation of electric vehicles and a persuasive vision for an AI-driven, automated future. Instead, what the chief executive offered — alongside even worse than expected first-quarter profits

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has sharply criticised ExxonMobil’s decision to sue two shareholders that filed a climate proposal at the US oil major, pursuing the litigation even after they dropped the resolution. Nicolai