Russia has accused the UK of “escalation” and threatened “consequences” following reports that British-made drones were used by Ukraine in long-range strikes in recent days. The UK Ministry of Defence ...

Collectors have long appreciated buttons as miniature works of art: part fashion, part social history, with a heritage stretching back some 4,000 years. The first examples originated in about 2,000 BC ...

Unless East is certain that a slam is available, the vulnerability is wrong to bid 5D. Failing to do so, however, gave South the chance to confirm at least a 5-card suit, and Nort ...

Simply sign up to the Sovereign bonds myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Long-term borrowing costs across major economies hit multi-decade highs on Tuesday as inflation concerns, deficit ...

The UK group launched its €38-a-share offer for Hugo Boss in June to acquire the roughly 74 per cent of the company it did not already own. At the time, Frasers sought to push its stake beyond 30 per ...

The FT Alphaville Friday Charts Quiz — our weekly quiz of charts, published on Fridays — was born three years ago next week. Very little has changed (in terms of the Charts Quiz) since then. We ask ...

Rodney Mims Cook Jr showed Russian officials pictures of his ‘dacha’ at Vladimir Putin’s flagship economic forum ...

Before his death, Jason Arday had, similarly, been exposed as something he was not, with a series of lingering questions over aspects of his scholarship. From the beginning, however, something was ...

The UK unemployment rate stayed at 4.9 per cent in the three months to June and missed a decline to 4.8 per cent that was expected by analysts  Private sector regular pay growth was 2.8 per cent in ...

Sir Chris Wormald received a record payout of about £500,000 after being sacked as Britain’s top civil servant by Sir Keir Starmer, according to people briefed on the settlement, roughly twice as much ...

Libya needs as much as $40bn of investment to develop its oil and gas resources as it seeks to restore itself as one of the world’s major crude producers, according to the head of its state oil ...

China’s 10-year bond yield has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year as weak economic growth pushes investors into the country’s sovereign debt. Yields on China’s 10-year government bonds ...