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Are attention spans really shrinking? Bear with me for 47 seconds — here’s why our fizzing brains still have the ability to focus

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Marinelli: my 15-year quest to ski the biggest face in the Alps The FT’s travel editor on falling down a rabbit hole of obsession with the ‘most difficult, most beautiful’ descent in Europe

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Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: ‘They don’t care about fox hunting. It’s about us’ The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege — and his numerous tattoos

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Water, Japanese paper and a vacuum cleaner — the secrets of restoring Michelangelo’s Last Judgment As the Sistine Chapel masterpiece is given a facelift, new aspects of the painter’s genius are coming to light

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Trump’s war on Iran is spreading. Where does it stop? US allies in the Arab world have been plunged into a conflict they neither wanted nor consented to. Historian Eugene Rogan on what it means for the Middle East

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The war of unintended consequences Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone

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In the centre of the storm: what does the Iran war mean for Dubai? Test comes for city that sold itself as metropolis of peace and stability as UAE’s ambitions threatened

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Gospel of lead How a mysterious cache of books drew a couple into an 18-year quest to prove their authenticity

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A weekend sauna safari in Helsinki As the sauna craze heats up worldwide, Daniel Beurthe goes back to the source for a steamy city break

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At last, the carbon cutter everyone can get behind Why solar will shape the power systems of the future

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What if AI just makes us work harder? Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do

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Five ways demographics are transforming the world economy Longer work lives, use of AI, stress on welfare systems — 45 experts set out their analysis

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‘Cavalier and demeaning’: the Trump team’s hyper-aggressive war rhetoric White House boasts of the military’s lethality and prowess but critics pan the language as callous and cruel

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Why Trump won’t clean up his own mess Chaos and instability are a feature, not a bug, of the US president’s approach to foreign policy

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Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries after Iranian drone strike

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Why vulnerable Gulf energy assets are rattling the world Infrastructure in the region plays a critical role in global power supply

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The reality of chatbot-induced delusions Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

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How the UK mortgage market became so unstable The market has not been this jittery in decades — and that was before the Middle East conflict

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Dot plot titled “SpaceX and xAI have gained more than $1tn in valuation in under 18 months”. It compares company valuations at the latest disclosed funding rounds in October 2024 (grey dots) and February 2026 (red dots), in billions of dollars. SpaceX and xAI combined rise from about $200bn in October 2024 to roughly $1.2tn in February 2026. OpenAI increases from around $80bn to about $500bn. Anthropic rises from roughly $20bn to about $180bn. Databricks increases from around $25bn to about $140bn. Smaller AI groups including Figure, SSI, Scale, Cursor, Perplexity and TML show more modest gains, mostly rising from below $20bn to between roughly $20bn and $60bn. Source: Company reports and FT reporting.

As Elon Musk prepares to take SpaceX public with a reported $1.75tn valuation, early investors, staff and bankers await a monumental payday. But sheer scale is not the only extraordinary aspect of this IPO. Can Musk defy the laws of financial gravity?

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How Pedro Sánchez became Donald Trump’s nemesis in Europe Spain’s premier tells US president what no other European leader dares to say but some say he has miscalculated

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The geopolitics of the global oceans treaty It has been hailed as a diplomatic triumph, but some worry it could become a vehicle to increase China’s influence over the high seas

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If Britain supports a US war in the Middle East it has learnt nothing from the past. If it opposes action, it invites Trump’s wrath. This is the hideous dilemma faced by the UK — and Europe.

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Bar chart titled “EU gas storage is only 30 per cent full”. It shows the share of working gas volume in EU storage at the start of March for selected years. Storage levels are about 27% in 2022, rise to roughly 59% in 2023 and 62% in 2024, then fall to around 38% in 2025 and about 30% in 2026. Source: GIE (Gas Infrastructure Europe).

Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe faces another energy crisis. Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is at a standstill, the world’s second biggest liquefied natural gas supplier has halted production, and EU reserves are low.

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Citi’s security unit was meant to probe misconduct. Employees say it protected the bank instead Internal team staffed by ex-law enforcement ‘operates as HR’s internal hit squad’, former executive says

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Trapped in the middle of a new world disorder From a capricious White House to chilling parallels with a previous global conflict, three books analyse this moment of churn and change in international affairs

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When buying clothes, can you beat the market? There are more than just financial considerations to take into account when buying vintage, quality basics and luxury items

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Could working from home solve the global fertility crisis? New research shows allowing more flexibility to fit jobs around family could enable people to have more children

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Iceland freezes decade-long legal battle with Iceland UK supermarket abandons trademark dispute with island nation after third legal loss

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Formula 1’s pivotal year The motor racing series has new rules, new teams and a new US broadcaster in Apple. Will it be a recipe for further growth?

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Donald Trump’s dangerous ‘war of whim’ Anyone who claims to know where this conflict will go is bluffing

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