15 women were willing to come to testify in court on behalf of the FT. That included 3 whose allegations had not previously been reported.

A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran. www.ft.com/content/744e...

Donald Trump has said he wants to “take the oil in Iran” and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island, as the US sends thousands of troops to the Middle East. The US president told the FT in an interview on Sunday that his “preference would be to take the oil” www.ft.com/content/3bd9...

Fantastic deep dive into Deutsche Bank’s impressive fidelity to Jeffrey Epstein as.ft.com/r/b8e5215d-c...

Goldman’s top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler was talking to Citadel about a job. Epstein speculates that the hedge fund’s boss Ken Griffin “might just be interested in a woman” as.ft.com/r/8e7b8651-1...

Iranian nuclear experts made a covert trip to Russia, visiting US-sanctioned scientific institutes that specialise in nuclear technology with civilian and weapons application. investigation by @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/00f6...

Tony Blair Institute staff worked alongside BCG on a project for postwar Gaza that ended up proposing a 'Trump Riviera', 'MBS ring' road and 'Elon Musk smart manufacturing zone'. Latest scoop from @stephenfoley and @PickardJE www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

It’s amazing what people get away with observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

on.ft.com/4mS2orf Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers

Goodbye to Gwen Robinson, Asia correspondent extraordinaire, doyenne of FT oped editors, a one-person nuclear power plant, and a true & beloved friend to so many people all over the world. FT's obituary free to read here. enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/3de26...

Do you write good? Are you keen on wonky stuff? Then come work for us. on.ft.com/41Nc11W

The infuriatingly stupid UK tax trap that is dissuading people from working and taking pay rises. www.ft.com/content/8fc5...

Hong Kong hedge funds, Blackpool football, 70 sources, 5 uses of the c-word. Something for everyone in @kayewiggins epic tale of Simon Sadler www.ft.com/content/4420...

Who is Jan Marsalek, the absconded fraudster and Russian spymaster to 3 Bulgarians convicted in the UK today? Well, let me tell you a story about a high school drop-out who masterminded a $30bn financial fraud in the heart of Europe while trying to build a North African militia as a side hustle.

"One doctor at a public hospital in Hubei province in central China said the institution’s leadership had issued a directive that DeepSeek should be used as a third-party arbiter if two doctors have differing views on a patient’s treatment" on.ft.com/4bis0bm

I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn

What does Politico’s owner think of Trump after he falsely accused it of taking $8m of US aid money and ended government subscriptions to the “left wing rag”? Interview by Laura Pitel and @gideonrachman.bsky.social on.ft.com/41l2Aqj

Two useful sentences in this latest Guardian puff piece on ex-Citi trader Gary Stevenson. 1. "Stevenson’s is an incredible story." 2. "There are fundamentals here that I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t really get." Anyway, this other piece is good www.ft.com/content/7e8b...

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Our reiterated $1.1tn sum-of-the-parts value for Greenland is a significant premium to its government’s end-2023 NAV of DKr1bn ($138bn). America Corp's last formal offer for the territory ($100mn in gold bullion, 1946, rejected)… on.ft.com/3DIGKno

The trend lines are bad for the free press. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...

Syria's Doge is already quizzing bureaucrats on what they do all day. Great piece from Raya Jalabi and Sarah Dadouch ft.com/content/7efc...

“And of course, the Assads may yet plunge further – for all the overly impressed reports of apartments in glittering Moscow skyscrapers, I must say I’d have picked something on the ground floor myself.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad. www.ft.com/content/1922...

One of the FT’s biggest UK reporting jobs was posted this week Chief UK Business Correspondent job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Nato chief Mark Rutte toDonald Trump: “We cannot have a situation where we have Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving…” www.ft.com/content/8a80... . Interview by Henry Foy

This is where we’re at: BlackRock held a board meeting in London “in what the government described as a ‘vote of confidence’ in the UK.” on.ft.com/3OhBitH