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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
According to one account, Johannes Vermeer, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, was a genius so potent that a close…

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
According to one account, Johannes Vermeer, the great 17th-century Dutch painter, was a genius so potent that a close…

Visitors to Tate Modern are used to unusual encounters in its vast Turbine Hall. They’ve sunbathed before an artificial sun, slid down helter skelters and witnessed AI-powered robotic jellyfish floating through the air. But this is the first…

On a well-maintained driveway in an unremarkable suburb of Dublin, a small man in a sleeveless jumper is professing a desire to expand his horizons. “I feel myself getting quieter. More invisible,” says Leonard, blinking up at the night sky….

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Mourners leave flowers outside hotel where late pop star’s life ended, in Buenos Aires

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