The early 2000s were the high point for this horizon of the future. The great cities of Asia — Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing but also Mumbai and Bengaluru — joined the list of “global cities”.

Germany and France hit out at the long-awaited EU-US trade deal on Monday, warning it would wound the bloc’s economy, as the euro slid against the dollar. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the ...

Zhuang Yanfang, an educator and owner of three kindergartens in Jinhua, a city in China’s prosperous coastal Zhejiang province, decided to turn one of her facilities, which at its peak had boasted 270 ...

Coca-Cola has said it will launch a new version of its signature soft drink sweetened with cane sugar later this year, days after US President Donald Trump announced that the company had agreed to the ...

Chrysopoeia, commonly known as alchemy, has been pursued by civilisations as far back as ancient Egypt. Now San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion, a start-up focused on using nuclear fusion to generate ...

Twenty-eight countries, including the UK, Canada, Japan and more than a dozen EU nations, have condemned the “drip feeding of aid” and “inhumane killing of civilians” in Gaza, as they demanded an ...

The EU must strengthen its security and defence partnerships with Asian countries despite pressure from the Trump administration to focus only on Europe’s domestic security, Brussels’ chief diplomat ...

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Russia’s “swarm” tactics against Ukraine are increasingly cutting through Ukraine’s defences, with drones striking ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland plans to buy a stake in a satellite company that came to prominence by tracking Russian troop movements ...