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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has embraced Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the steps of Downing Street as he launched an attempt to bolster the Ukrainian president after his explosive encounter with Donald Trump. Starmer

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The boss of British film studio Working Title has warned that UK government plans to weaken copyright laws to appease AI developers are an “existential threat” to the country’s creative industries. “We’ve been making films there

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has demanded the EU begin “direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire” in the war against Ukraine. Orban also said he opposed efforts to find any consensus on Ukraine

At 9am on Saturday morning, a group of women spread across the busiest street in central Kyiv and stopped traffic to observe a minute of silence. A loudspeaker counted 60 ticks before blaring the opening lines of the national anthem — “Ukraine’s glory and freedom have not yet perished”. Drivers and passengers stepped out of

Stocks of small UK companies are the “most unloved” in the world, according to analysis by Abrdn, as investors have pared their UK holdings and invested in US tech giants. The forward price/earnings ratio for MSCI’s UK small cap stock index fell to 24.3 per cent below its 10-year average at the end of January,

European leaders rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his spectacular Oval Office bust-up with Donald Trump, but the rift between Kyiv and Washington leaves Europe with agonising choices about how to prop up Ukraine. Friday’s confrontation, where the US president accused the Ukrainian leader of “gambling” with a third world war, caused consternation in European capitals

Show video info Donald Trump acknowledged that his relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy had grown “a little bit testy” ahead of the Ukrainian president’s visit to the White House this week. But that simmering stress in the connection between the two men erupted on Friday into a full-blown brawl in the Oval Office, reflecting the bad

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman took home more than $1bn in 2024 as the private equity titan saw his income rise due to a rebound in investment activity at the world’s largest alternative investment group,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Show video info Friday’s unprecedented public row between Donald Trump, his vice-president JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reverberated around the world. Here are the five key moments as the spectacle unfolded:

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump’s team raised the possibility of the US president’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland returning as a venue for the Open Championship during Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the White House this

Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” as the US president cut short the Ukrainian leader’s long-sought meeting in the White House and told him to return “when he is ready for Peace”. In a joint appearance before the television cameras on Friday, the two leaders clashed even before the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Show video info It could not have gone worse. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House on Friday was supposedly a chance to salvage his relationship with Donald Trump after a stormy few

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A meeting that was supposed to bolster the flimsy trust between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump descended instead into an extraordinary slanging match in the Oval Office in front of

Bridge-building has been a struggle for recent British prime ministers. Boris Johnson was widely mocked when he proposed a 28-mile link from Scotland to Northern Ireland, spanning a trench containing 1mn tonnes of unexploded munitions, chemical weapons and radioactive waste. Sir Keir Starmer was also greeted with some incredulity when he suggested on the eve

White House talks between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy over ending the war between Moscow and Kyiv have broken down after the US president said his Ukrainian counterpart had “disrespected” America. The dramatic and premature conclusion to the summit came after the two leaders clashed even before the start of their formal meeting, as the

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is an FT contributing editor, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and fellow at IWM Vienna Listening to US vice-president JD Vance’s address in Munich and looking at the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft is shuttering its Skype video-calling service 14 years after buying the company for $8.5bn, hanging up on a pioneer of internet communications that upended the telecoms industry and paved the way for WhatsApp and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. International development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in protest at Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to fund a £6bn defence spending increase by slashing the UK’s aid budget. “Ultimately, these cuts will remove food and

Not long after the US and Russia sat down for their first high-level talks since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the US’s biggest multinationals received a call. The Russian government was planning a meeting to discuss the path for western companies to re-enter the country. Would this particular multinational, the Russian government official

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft has accused the UK’s antitrust regulator of “looking backwards” by ignoring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the technology industry, in its response to the agency’s investigation into the £9bn UK cloud computing market. The

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. Keir Starmer can reflect on a successful first visit to Donald Trump’s White House. But