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Matthew McConaughey , the accomplished and versatile American actor, was the host of the Saturday Night Live comedy show yesterday (21 Nov...

La Marseillaise has been prominent in recent days as peoples across the world have showed solidarity with France after the terrorist murders...

Charley Ellis, author of 'Winning the Loser's Game', explains to the FT’s John Authers how, almost uniquely, the fund managemen...

FT deputy editor John Thornhill speaks to Luis de Guindos, Spain’s minister of economy and competitiveness, about the country’s nascent eco...

The push to keep the UK in the EU has begun, with the launch of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign. But as Janan Ganesh explains to L...

Plagiarism is common on the web and when a business firm takes the complete content of articles from the Finfacts website plus images, and ...

Trevor Noah of the Daily Show proposes that anti-abortion advocates like Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush channel their pro-life rhetoric into an...

Twitter has named co-founder Jack Dorsey as chief executive - even though he already runs start-up Square, a payment processing firm. Hann...

The Financial Times reports that "Magude is the first staging post in a global supply chain that ends in east Asia, where rhino...

Forty years on from Britain’s vote to stay in the EEC in 1975, FT editor Lionel Barber and political commentator Janan Ganesh discuss what ...

The Guardian reported in recent days [that until this week most of us had never heard of Daraprim, a drug that fights toxoplasmosis. But ...

In 2011 a Belgian photographer was allowed entry into one of Japan’s Yakuza families. Over two years, he captured the lives of those living ...

The falls in emerging market currencies in the period Jan-Aug 2015 range from China's renminbi at 2.4% to the Brazilian real's ...

What heralded Chinese stock collapse and return to data watch: James Mackintosh of the FT on whether China's slowdown has a soft cen...

The Swissinfo news service reported on Thursday that Vitus Huonder, the Catholic bishop of Chur, the capital of the Swiss canton, Graubün...

Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? And how did it get started? Scientists are seeking the answers in the cosmos, our solar syst...

　 Update : On Wednesday, China's central bank fixed the "official midpoint" for the yuan down 1.6% to 6.3306 against the ...

Microsoft co-founder and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair Bill Gates talks to FT deputy editor John Thornhill about philanthrop...

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Angela Merkel, German chancellor, meets Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime minister, Brussels, Feb 12, 2015. Bank runs returned to modern econom...

　 This week a white 21-year-old man murdered nine Bible study attendees at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S...

　 Economist Films: For 20 years The Economist has led calls for a rethink on drug prohibition. This film looks at new approaches to drugs...

Marking 10 years of the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking, WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell and marketing heads from Coca-Cola...