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Between them, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris spent $3.5bn in the race for the presidency ( Report, November 6). Regardless of the outcome, can anyone rationally believe that was money well spent?

Congratulations to Sarah Flannery on her incisive letter (October 28) about Britain’s high speed rail project and the pipe dream of private funding of the line from Birmingham to Manchester. I ...

While we had a presidential election in the US on November 5 (the result of which I don’t know as I write this), I wonder whether what is going on in China might be more important. I thought much the ...

Increasing numbers of UK interiors brands are “peddling their wares” with a village-fete style verve – both broadening their ...

An art­icle on Novem­ber 6 repor­ted that Lukoil, the Rus­sian energy group, had writ­ten to the office of Rus­sian Pres­id­ent Vladi­mir Putin out­lining plans to sell its Bul­garian oil refinery to ...

Companies conduct “evaluations” of AI models by teams of staff and outside researchers. These are standardised tests, known as benchmarks, that assess models’ abilities and the performance of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Warren Buffett is unwinding his most profitable trade in history, filling Berkshire Hathaway’s coffers with ...

‘Operating in the Stone Age’: NHS staff’s daily struggle with outdated tech on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘Operating in ...

This article, part of the free FT Schools programme, won the 2024 Young Economist of the Year competition run in partnership with Discover Economics. The authors attend The Tiffin Girls’ School. The ...

Premier League football clubs are targeting stadium upgrades to boost revenues as England’s top 20 teams aim to reap the benefits of rising ticket demand and reduce the reliance on income from ...

State the estimated number of people who lost their lives in the recent Spanish floods Identify two reasons why residents in Valencia were caught unprepared by the flash floods Explain the link ...