UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is unlikely to cut pension tax relief for higher earners in her Budget next month because it would hit teachers, doctors and other better paid public sector workers, ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Thailand launches cash handout programme, and Israel launches air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen ...

The drivers of recent banking transactions are many of those that have shaped the European banking industry for the past 15 ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. World cities will face longer heatwaves, greater disease risk and “skyrocketing” energy demand for cooling, ...

Economists polled by Reuters expect the US to have added 145,000 jobs in September, a slight increase on the 142,000 created in August, and up from the 89,000 in July. The unemployment rate, ...

One air strike missed — the leader of Hizbollah had earlier left the spot. The others failed to penetrate the concrete reinforcements of his underground bunker, according to two people familiar with ...

In electing a new prime minister, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic party could have opted for generational change in the ...

Yuval Sharon wouldn’t mind too much if opera died. That might seem an unusual position for the artistic director of an opera ...

Guinness World Records is to open its first permanent entertainment venue in central London, as the UK publisher of records listing books taps into a booming wave of people socialising through casual ...

Nick Ephgrave says ‘failure to prevent’ wrongdoing offence may spur ‘uptick’ in deferred prosecution agreements ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For Felicity Aylieff, pots are the perfect form. “They may not be fashionable,” says the professor of ceramics ...

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