8+ hour, 24+ min ago  (12+ words) Reid Wiseman, the astronaut hailing a new "golden age" in space'Financial Times...

10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (609+ words) The writer is a distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute and served as US deputy assistant secretary of state under the Biden administration As a fragile ceasefire takes hold in the Middle East, countries are jockeying to shape…...

16+ hour, 58+ min ago  (351+ words) This summer, Carlos Acosta will star in The Moor's Pavane, Jos" Lim'n's chamber version of Othello, at Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells will present two Shakespeare adaptations this spring: Hamlet by South African choreographer Dada Masilo, and We Caliban by…...

12+ hour, 57+ min ago  (743+ words) A few days ago, just as bombs were hitting the Middle East, Scott Bessent, the US Treasury secretary, held private meetings with top Wall Street financiers. He had a key message to impart, I am told: don't sell assets, since…...

17+ hour, 57+ min ago  (1046+ words) Zijing Wu in Hong Kong In the hushed corridors of the technology hubs in Beijing, Hangzhou and Shenzhen, a quiet but significant shift is reshaping the landscape of AI development in China. Over the past 12 months, a wave of elite…...

1+ day, 14+ min ago  (525+ words) As a second wave of quantum computing companies list their shares this year, something unexpected has been happening. The reality is turning out to be very different. Instead, money has been flowing into a widening range of companies, including backing…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (630+ words) Ian Johnston in Brussels The EU will give gas producers more leeway on methane import rules to avoid gas being diverted from the bloc, as governments scramble to secure additional energy supplies in the wake of the US-Iran war. Ditte…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1266+ words) Madhumita Murgia and Tim Bradshaw in London AI "agents" are threatening to transform white-collar work, offering cheaper, faster software that can perform the tasks of lawyers, bankers and accountants. The reality is more complicated. Since the start of the year,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (470+ words) Financial Times The frantic caper Big Mistakes, in which two squabbling siblings get drawn into a life of organised crime, is a muted affair. It was created by Dan Levy, marking his first scripted series since the phenomenon that was…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (667+ words) We visited Renaissance and rococo palazzi. .. homes far more traditional than this one. This was the last property we saw, and not at all the kind of palazzo I had imagined," she says. It's a world away from their seven-storey…...