Children stand behind barbed-wire along a slope near a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 30, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the militant group Hamas. –…
If you use generative AI, you know that it can seem like magic. Chatbots and multimedia models can effortlessly conjure up poems or high-res videos at the snap of a finger. But AI models’ speedy outputs and sleek interfaces mask…
Russian forces pushed further into the Kharkiv region in north-eastern Ukraine over the weekend, in a move that analysts said was more likely to be aimed at drawing Ukrainian units away from the eastern frontline than a bid to take…
A veteran cruise attendee at just 24 years old, Julia Wilcox is used to her inbox flooding with promotional emails from cruise lines courting loyal customers. But Wilcox, who vlogs her cruise experiences on TikTok, said one cruise line takes…
For years, Friedrich Merz battled pervasive doubts about his fitness to lead Germany’s main opposition party. That changed earlier this week when 1,001 Christian Democrats gathered in Berlin to acclaim the man they now believe will lead them to electoral victory…
It’s an exchange-traded fund designed to profit from higher rates. But even if the Federal Reserve starts to cut this year, Horizon Kinetics’ James Davolos thinks his firm’s Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL) is in a sweet spot. “We’re actually going…
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer. The…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It has been quite the week for women closely associated with Donald Trump. While one gave testimony in a New…
Hearing a sound in passing or getting a whiff of a smell can transport you to a familiar time and place in your life, and more likely than not you’ll get excited and want to think about the memory some…
Patients could wean themselves off blockbuster obesity drugs such as Ozempic or Wegovy without piling the pounds back on, according to a scientific study. Data presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, Italy on Sunday provides some of…