Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Travel & leisure industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Major hotel groups are intensifying efforts to get customers to book directly, as they seek to save on commissions paid to online platforms and prepare for the rise of artificial intelligence “agents”. Marriott, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Luxury brands pushed into the mass-market sports arena this year even as they shifted their broader business focus towards their wealthiest customers and away from the middle-class consumers who have turbocharged their growth over the … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Saudi Arabia has launched air strikes against a separatist faction in Yemen that is backed by the United Arab Emirates, underscoring a deepening rift between the Gulf’s two powerhouses. The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council said … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The head of the UK’s trade union movement has thrown his weight behind calls for Britain to negotiate a new customs union with the EU, arguing the move would boost living standards. Paul Nowak, general … Read more
It was around 10pm on Christmas Day when residents of the mainly Muslim village of Jabo in Sokoto state, north-west Nigeria, noticed an object resembling a small aircraft flying overhead. “Shortly after, we heard a loud explosion and saw a huge ball of fire,” one resident told local media. “Everyone was terrified. People rushed out … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Make no mistake, global markets really did change in 2025. American exceptionalism may never be the same again. You have to poke around to see this clearly. On the face of it, US stocks took … Read more
Brittany Broski was working at a bank in Dallas in 2019 when she got her first taste of internet stardom. She had posted a brief, funny TikTok video of her reaction to tasting kombucha for the first time, and the clip rocketed around the world. “I went viral by accident,” Broski recalls. The bank promptly … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hedgehogs and bears may have fewer brain cells than us, but they know a thing or two about recuperation. In the northern hemisphere, they find a good place to curl up and conk out. Then they … Read more