Creditors have agreed to lend $1.1bn to stabilise the company’s business through bankruptcy, capital that is contingent on ...

This framing is profoundly misleading. In reality Łempicki was Polish, a civilian lawyer and public servant. There is no ...

The review of Jill Lepore’s book We the People (“Have Americans got their constitution all wrong?”, September 27) does not answer the author’s question — how long should a constitution last?

Contrary to what was written in your magazine feature “The agony and ecstasy of restoring Fra Angelico” (Spectrum, October 4), the Arno did not “unexpectedly burst its banks” in 1966. After a long ...

In South Africa, we’ve lived with a form of digital ID since the 1970s: one number linking births, deaths, taxes — and the ...

But design can ameliorate everyday life by improving products that will then give more pleasure in use, and perhaps be used for longer. Unfortunately it is not plausible to think that design itself ...

AstraZeneca has agreed to lower costs of some medicines in exchange for a three-year reprieve from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. As part of the deal the pharmaceutical company will cut drug ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has urged business leaders to start talking up Britain or risk letting Nigel Farage ...

The US will allow Qatar to build an air force facility at an American military base in the western state of Idaho, as ...

When HSBC unveiled a $13.6bn deal to take full control of its local Hong Kong lender on Thursday, chief executive Georges ...

Simon Schama’s Weekend Essay “Lessons in liberty” (October 4) is right: we have forgotten the subtle but vital distinction between liberty and freedom. The Founders understood it — “Life, Liberty and ...

Simon Kuper’s article (Spectrum, Life & Arts, October 4) attributes moguls’ longevity to “innovations like stem-cell therapy and blood washing”. However, there is no scientific evidence for these ...