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“There’s an assumption that grandparents just babysit. “My mum’s 82 and my dad’s 87 with quite advanced dementia, so it’s not as simple as sending the boys up to them for a couple of hours.” Harriet thinks thought needs to be given to the way the school year is structured. “Six weeks is a long…
The industrial-scale sand battery in Finland’s Pornainen can cover almost one month of the town’s heating demands in the summer and as much as one week in the winter. Polar Night Energy A small town in southern Finland has turned to the world’s largest commercial sand battery to fix what many see as the most…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars’ For over a decade now, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has governed the world’s largest democracy with a formula: sustained religious mobilisation…
Magnificent 7 tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Adam Jeffery | CNBC The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure at a trillion-dollar annual clip is eroding the free cash flow and increasing balance-sheet risk at so-called hyperscalers, warned Moody’s Ratings. In a research note released this week, Moody’s said that the spending surge is…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Paramount Skydance has agreed to delay its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to as late as June 2027 — a multi-month delay that will ultimately raise the deal price — as the tie-up faces a legal challenge. Last week, a group of state attorneys general led by…
By Sinéad Carew and Ragini Mathur July 24 (Reuters) – The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell on Friday as investors sold chip stocks on worries about massive spending on artificial intelligence ahead of the next batch of megacap earnings reports, while falling oil prices provided Wall Street with some support even as Middle East hostilities continued. The…
It has been a long road for President Donald Trump as he looks for a justification to erect a tariff wall around the US, including against key allies. From the opioid crisis to illegal migration, then the need to bring manufacturing back to America’s shores, the list goes on. Through Trump’s second term, there has…
A German national flag on a barge near the Volkswagen AG factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Volkswagen reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter profits on Friday and scrapped hope for sales revenue growth in 2026, as the German auto giant lays the groundwork for a radical overhaul of…
The US has imposed new tariffs on 60 trading partners in the latest escalation in the trade war reignited by US President Donald Trump when he returned to office last year. Those targeted, including the UK, China and the European Union, will face a tariff of 10% to 12.5% on all goods, accounting for almost…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US has hit 60 countries with new duties of at least 10 per cent as Donald Trump rebuilds the tariff wall that was knocked down by the Supreme Court earlier this year….
