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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time…

In February 2025, Lina Ghotmeh, the Beirut-born, Paris-based architect, won the competition to oversee the remodelling of the Western Range of the British Museum, a series of galleries that makes up one-third of the historic London institution….

Mark SavageMusic correspondent
Getty ImagesAs break-up albums go, Lily Allen’s new record West End Girl is one for the history books.
Written and recorded in just 10 days, it’s a real-time account…

A cancer survivor has teamed up with a Strictly Come Dancing star to launch a breast health awareness app.
Gemma Ainger, 43, from Guernsey, was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer which had already spread to her lymph nodes when she went to…

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Bridget Jones, the character created by Helen Fielding and played by Renée Zellweger in four films, is to be immortalised in bronze in central London.
The new statue will be unveiled on 17 November and joins a number of others portraying key…

Building a bold new contemporary home directly on the British coastline is a tall order. Aside from the logistics of designing a house that functions successfully in such an unforgiving setting, planning permission is likely to make it a…

“They weren’t buddies,” author El-Hai tells the BBC. “But they formed a connection, and Kelley recognised that they shared certain personality traits.” As well as acknowledging Göring’s charm and intelligence, the doctor noted his drive, his…

Not long into his new documentary, Oobah Butler tells the cofounder of his newly minted company, Drops, that they should create a piece of luxury luggage that “looks like a bomb” and will sell for $200,000.
Immediately, I’m thinking his…

Disgraced Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins died after being stabbed in the neck in a alleged prison attack, an inquest has heard.
Watkins, 48, died on 11 October after being assaulted at HMP Wakefield, where he had been serving a 29-year sentence…