A quarter of people interviewed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last year during the ongoing Ebola outbreak believed the deadly virus wasn't real, according to a new study. A survey was conducted…
Passive attack: the story of a Wall Street…
Every year, hordes of aspiring investors make the pilgrimage to Omaha, hoping to learn at the feet of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting. But for more than two decades the Sage of Omaha…
Global stocks rattled by Fed forecast on rates
Global stock markets came under pressure on Thursday after Wall Street suffered its worst reaction to a Federal Reserve rate rise in more than two decades on worries that the US central bank was not…
Crossrail: how Europe’s largest and most prestigious transport…
It was not an explosion, more like a “loud pop”, according to those who witnessed it. But the electrical failure at Pudding Mill Lane substation in November 2017 provided the first sign that Queen Elizabeth…
Fed’s Powell under pressure over rate rises
Jay Powell will today wrap up the thorniest policy meeting of his chairmanship as the Federal Reserve faces a barrage of calls for easy money as the stock market slides in anticipation of soggy global…
Crypto miners fight for survival as market turmoil…
Ambitious plans for Britain’s biggest bitcoin mine have come to an abrupt halt. Bladetech, a team of entrepreneurs who have worked on specialist IT projects for the likes of Nato and BAE Systems, announced in…
Theresa May pushes through post-Brexit immigration curbs
Theresa May has infuriated cabinet colleagues and business leaders by insisting on a post-Brexit plan to slash EU migration, centred on tough visa restrictions on unskilled workers from the bloc. Philip Hammond, the chancellor, and…
How José Mourinho failed to reinvent himself as…
It’s tempting to blame José Mourinho’s personality for his sacking by Manchester United on Tuesday. Certainly any football manager who keeps belittling his players in public will not last long. In fact, though, Mourinho’s failure…
Working but homeless: a tale from England’s housing…
FT Seasonal Appeal 2018 Tuesday, 20 November, 2018 Ryan Russell pokes his head into a small, warm room with clean white walls and a single bed next to the window. “Is this mine?” he asks.…