Marine Le Pen convicted of embezzling EU funds
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzling EU funds. The far-right politician is accused of misusing the funds between 2004 and 2016, when she was a member of the European ...
Deloitte is hit hardest by Trump’s spending clampdown on consultants
Deloitte is emerging as the biggest early loser from a Trump administration push to axe spending on consultants, ahead of a ...
Trump has promised tariff ‘liberation day’. Americans aren’t so sure
President Donald Trump has called it “liberation day” — when global commerce will finally start to rebalance and the US will no longer be mistreated by its trading partners. But much of America is ...
Theatre review: The Women of Llanrumney, Stratford East — a searing interrogation of slavery
The Women of Llanrumney sounds like a tale from the Welsh valleys — and in a sense it is. Azuka Oforka’s blistering first ...
Rot — a disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine
As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation. Scanlan evades the ventriloquism of more polemical histories. He lets the dead ...
Magnus Carlsen sets a memory test for BBC2 chess viewers
Magnus Carlsen, the world No1, made a cameo appearance via video in last Monday’s third episode of BBC2’s Chess Masters: The Endgame, challenging contestants to memorise a position from a “special” ...
Rocket to buy Mr Cooper in $9.4bn deal to create US mortgage giant
Rocket Companies has agreed to buy Mr Cooper for $9.4bn, in a deal that will create a US mortgage giant at an uncertain time for the US real estate market. The all-stock transaction will put fintech ...
EU plans to strengthen police powers to tackle foreign threats
The European Commission plans to strengthen EU policing and law enforcement measures against threats from foreign powers such as Russia that collaborate with criminal networks, under a new strategy on ...
Thames Water selects KKR as preferred bidder
Thames Water has selected the US private equity group KKR as its preferred bidder to take control of the UK’s largest water ...
Japan warns ‘big one’ earthquake could kill 300,000 people
New report says a magnitude 9 tremor in the Nankai Trough has potential for damage equivalent to half of annual GDP ...
Tariffs and their discontents
This is an important point to understand, not only because is it at the heart of the Trump administration’s economic thinking, but also because it resonates with average Americans. If it’s about ...
My top 10: the best of Milan’s Brera museum by FT art critic Jackie Wullschläger
Throughout, the Brera is gracious, ample, full of surprises and rarely crowded: an oasis of contemplative pleasure in ...