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Skort shrift: the fight over women’s sportswear

After high-profile pitch stand-offs, players can finally wear shorts

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Chinese students shaken by US visa crackdown look for Plan B

Prospective scholars think twice about Trump’s America and consider applying to universities elsewhere

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

For Europe, America was the future. Now what?

Mark Mazower on the long history and troubled present of the transatlantic relationship

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

London’s Garrick Club admits just three women after rule change

Some members’ ‘fusty’ attitude leads to suggestion that ending men-only stance was a PR exercise

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

‘I thought my business would shut down’

Despite the odd setback, Tarquin Leadbetter’s gin distillery has expanded, after he quit his job as an emerging market analyst

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

For Pop Mart, tiny blind boxes are big business

Gen Z shoppers are driving a collecting frenzy for Labubu across Asia, the US and Europe

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Can you still make money from UK property?

Thirty years on from the introduction of buy-to-let mortgages, landlords are struggling to make ends meet

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

The ‘wild’ writer who told the truth about work in China

How a Beijing courier’s story struck a chord and escaped the censors

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Great rail journeys: nostalgia and magic on the Night Riviera to Cornwall

Journeying back to the golden age of English seaside holidays aboard the GWR sleeper from Paddington

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Investors must not let the tariff drama cloud their judgment

Buying the best companies regardless of their country of origin might be the right policy

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

The court of King Donald

People are willing to tolerate transparent conflicts of interest but they won’t stand for hypocrisy

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Do Republicans still care about debt?

The House of Representatives voted to spend more and cut less. Many Republicans don’t mind

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Trump says U.S. will double steel tariffs to 50%

President Trump will hold a rally Friday at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh, one week after signaling he had cleared a merger with Japan's Nippon Steel.

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

France's Macron calls on Europe and Asia to unite as U.S.-China tensions flare

Macron's speech comes amid a regional tour that has also taken him to Vietnam and Indonesia.

Published on: May 31, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Stablecoins stole the show at Bitcoin 2025 — here's what the major players said

Stablecoins stole the spotlight at Bitcoin 2025, as U.S. officials backed new legislation to enshrine digital dollars.

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

US stocks post biggest monthly rally since 2023

Wall Street’s S&P 500 gains 6% in May

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Elon Musk deflects question about report of drug use, family drama as Trump looks on

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for an event marking the DOGE founder's departure from Washington.

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

US warns Brazilian judge over order to block rightwing video platform user

Trump administration steps up campaign against Alexandre de Moraes for alleged free speech clampdown

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Dimon warns US bond market will ‘crack’ under pressure from rising debt

JPMorgan Chase chief calls on Trump administration to set country on better fiscal path

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Tesla gains 22% in May as Elon Musk ends time with Trump's DOGE

Musk's work leading DOGE, President Donald Trump's initiative to slash federal agencies and their resources, is coming to a formal end.

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Football boot makers jump out of kangaroo leather

Japanese sportswear groups Asics and Mizuno to use alternative materials following decades of activist pressure

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Musk ‘not really leaving’ the US government, says Trump

President praises his billionaire backer as he steps down from heading the Doge cost-cutting initiative

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Trump lauds Elon Musk and DOGE at White House farewell

Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, worked for Trump's DOGE effort after spending over $250 million helping to get him elected.

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Trump accuses China of violating US tariff truce

Washington warns talks with Beijing are ‘stalled’ two weeks after reaching deal that temporarily lowered duties

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

This is why Jamie Dimon is always so gloomy on the economy

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has regularly warned that the U.S. economy faces perils, but even as he sounds the alarm, his bank is doing better than ever.

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

Taylor Swift buys rights to her first six albums

Agreement with private equity group ends years-long saga

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

US goods imports tumble 20% in April as Trump’s tariffs disrupt trade

President’s sweeping levies have increased cost of foreign goods

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

The fate of Gaza: ‘It all depends on Trump’

Heavy casualties and the risk of widespread starvation have led to new pressure on Israel to halt its offensive. But US influence will be decisive

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Ukraine to miss payment on GDP-linked debt

Default will not have wider implications for country’s bonds

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

NatWest returns to full private ownership 17 years after £46bn UK bailout

Government sells final shares after rescue at height of financial crisis

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

China calls out Trump for 'abuse' of semiconductor export controls

The U.S. has limited exports of some chips and chip technology to China as part of a national defense strategy dating back to the first Trump administration

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: CNBC International favicon CNBC International

US stock rally faces some stiff tests

Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill could make or break the market trend

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Why doesn’t government work in the US?

Most Americans used to think of it as a force for good — not any longer

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

Macron calls for European and Asian ‘coalition’ during US-China tension

French leader says grouping could help shield international order rather than choosing sides among superpowers

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World

America’s courts versus Donald Trump

US judges are a vital restraint on the president’s attempts to rule by decree

Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source: Financial Times - World favicon Financial Times - World