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Columbia president resigns after university cedes to Trump demands

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Katrina Armstrong exits a week after the institution agreed to a list of reforms to fend off funding cuts

India’s VC-backed chess academy churns out champions across the board

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Backed by a venture capitalist, Indian chess great Anand has helped propel prodigies to top international rankings

China to review BlackRock’s deal to buy Panama Canal ports

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First official response by Beijing adds to uncertainty over geopolitically sensitive transaction

US tells French companies to comply with Trump’s anti-diversity order

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Move signals push by the American president to widen his ideological campaign abroad

US stocks tumble as deepening consumer gloom raises stagflation fears

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Americans express rising alarm over economy and job prospects as Trump’s tariffs weigh on outlook

Donald Trump says US must gain control of Greenland

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Comments increase pressure on Nato ally Denmark as vice-president JD Vance tours military base on island

CoreWeave treads water in market debut after downsized IPO

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Investor enthusiasm for companies linked to artificial intelligence boom has waned this year

US regulator to investigate Disney over diversity initiatives

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Entertainment group says it looks ‘forward to engaging with Federal Communications Commission to answer its questions’

Reeves’ drive for security leaves Labour beset by uncertainty

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The UK chancellor has made herself a prisoner of market movements, while the party’s MPs fret over how cuts will go down

‘Almost comical’: the Trump team’s first national security crisis

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The use of a group chat to discuss military attacks has called into question the competency of senior officials, despite their brazen defiance

Trump and Carney hold talks over US-Canada trade war tensions

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Phone call comes following Washington’s announcement of additional 25% levies on imports of foreign-made cars

British Steel’s Chinese owner pushed for £1bn state support for Scunthorpe plant

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Jingye rejected £500mn government offer and could close its two blast furnaces as early as June

Zelenskyy says Europeans agree to deepen intelligence ties with Kyiv

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Leader rejects latest US attempt to take control of Ukrainian assets

The perils of capitulating to Donald Trump

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This week has brought cave-ins to the White House but also signs of a fightback

Science and tech groups lead campaign to revive Oxford rail link

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Cowley freight line has been closed to passengers since 1963 and now only transports Minis from BMW’s car plant

WilmerHale and Jenner & Block sue US government over Trump’s executive orders

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President announces settlement with Skadden Arps as other elite law firms battle administration

US throws lifeline to Serbia over oil sanctions

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Balkan country granted 30-days to find a buyer for the Russian majority stake in NIS and avert economic chaos

UK carmakers back Starmer’s no-tariff approach to Trump

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Auto groups told ministers on Friday they wanted more support for the sector domestically

Aid’s grim counter-revolution will prove self-defeating

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Arguments for slashing overseas development assistance in favour of defence fail on their own terms

Anne Wojcicki, the floundering 23andMe’s eternal optimist

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Despite the company filing for bankruptcy, the co-founder won’t give up on her dream of using DNA kits to discover new drugs

It’s finally time for joined-up European markets

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In principle, the arguments for deeper and less fragmented capital markets are obvious

Sentencing Council rejects calls to abandon ‘two-tier’ justice guidelines

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Government ‘disappointed’ after body stands firm on pre-sentence reports for offenders from certain backgrounds

How the Bloomsbury set brought post-impressionism to Britain

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A fine exhibition at Charleston shows how the group championed the art of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Pissarro

ESG investors’ dilemma over bombs and bullets

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There’s an argument that greater engagement in the defence sector from sustainable investors could raise ethical standards

A hard rain’s a-gonna fall: why are we ignoring the rising risk of surface water flooding?

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New modelling puts 4.6mn English properties at risk from rain that falls faster than the ground can absorb it — a jump of 43 per cent on a year ago. Insurers are beating a retreat, but few homeowners are prepared to accept they are vulnerable

Taiwan accuses Chinese chipmakers of illegally poaching engineers

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Beijing’s semiconductor champion SMIC accused of posing as Samoa entity to evade foreign investment restrictions

Mexico slides towards recession amid Trump turmoil

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Growth slows sharply as changing tariff regime and domestic reforms deter investors

Israel scraps system protecting aid workers in Gaza, agencies say

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Military no longer acknowledges notifications designed to help groups move safely around the strip

Ask Green: Where do you go when you’re lonely?

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Sainsbury’s cafés offered elderly people and young families a place to mingle over a hot cuppa. What to do now?

Macron’s top adviser to take senior role at Société Générale

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Alexis Kohler leaves chief of staff job he has held at the Élysée Palace since French president’s election in 2017

Senior Starmer aide to stand down

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Director of communications Matthew Doyle quits after just nine months in post

Who will the force be with in May?

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Elections to councils and mayoralties are a litmus test for minor parties’ prospects

What does TGJones mean?

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That old, familial feeling

Nikola’s Trevor Milton says he has been pardoned by Trump

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Founder of electric and hydrogen-powered truckmaker was found guilty in 2022 of lying to investors

Powerful earthquake strikes central Myanmar

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Tremors felt hundreds of miles away in Bangkok

British retail sales outstrip forecasts to rise 1% in February

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Department stores and household goods led the increase, while supermarket sales volumes fell back

Valuing CoreWeave

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Plus the US fiscal impulse

Meloni pitches her alternative peacekeeping plan for Ukraine

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Also in this newsletter: Should regional development funds be redeployed for defence?

China’s Xi meets foreign CEOs to urge trade stability

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Exhortation to ‘not blindly follow’ disruptive actions comes amid rising tensions with US

JD Vance aims to be America’s antagonist

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The vice-president is emerging from Donald Trump’s shadow with his own brand of aggression towards US allies

Active ETFs: a lifeline for Europe’s struggling asset managers?

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Growth has been rapid, but from a low base, and big US rivals already dominate the market

Why I want US shares to leap like Nureyev once more

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Other stock markets are outperforming, but I’m eyeing a chance to sell

Should I help my daughter pay for her son’s school fees?

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I’m worried about how to structure payments fairly as I also have other children.

The Trump oil dilemma

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Some advisers now view the price of the fossil fuel as a crucial anti-inflation tool

Meloni rejects ‘childish’ choice between Trump and Europe

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Prime minister tells the FT in an exclusive interview she will respect ‘first ally’ in White House while working to avoid transatlantic rift

Elon Musk is wrong about GDP

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The tech tycoon is not the first to misunderstand what gross domestic product is meant to measure  

Gulf petrostate Kuwait tries to kickstart diversification from oil

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Nation set to borrow for the first time in eight years as it seeks to catch up with Saudi Arabia and UAE

Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?

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New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers

Singapore’s UOBAM set to enter Taiwan active ETF market

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Asset manager also plans to expand ETF sales in mainland China via the stalled cross-listing scheme

Can the NHS do away with ‘winter pressures’?

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European countries offer England evidence of how to navigate seasonal strains without big disruption to services