Security posts known as bollards were not in place before a suspect drove a truck into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans early on New Year’s Day, killing 14 and injuring at least 35. Louisiana officials have said the street barriers were malfunctioning and were undergoing renovations before the city hosts the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Conservatives have called for a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation, after Elon Musk accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to bring rape gangs to justice when he was head of the prosecution service … Read more
Will Trent Alexander-Arnold stay at Liverpool? (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images) The future of Trent Alexander-Arnold at Liverpool remains up in the air as Real Madrid continue to try and lure the full-back to Spain in 2025. The La Liga champions made an attempt to sign the 26-year-old on New Year’s Eve ahead of the … Read more
No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is increasing as the amount of debris in orbit around the Earth increases dramatically.
Germany’s vice chancellor said Musk’s comments calling the far-right AfD a “last spark of hope” weren’t made out of ignorance. Read More
Tesla has reported its first-ever . The total number of deliveries for 2024 hovers at around 1.78 million, but the company delivered 1.81 million vehicles in 2023. Company shares fell by as much as seven percent at the news, but has since rallied a couple of points. This follows similar news from Q1 of 2024, … Read more
By Joshua Tyler | Published 3 seconds ago Science fiction movies and TV shows are full of big space battles, but it’s rare to see them attempt realism. There are a few recent exceptions. The Expanse wowed audiences with its realistic depiction of future space battles. The 2000s Battlestar Galactica used fundamental Newtonian Physics to … Read more
It would be fair to say that, so far anyway, this season has not been a great one for Tottenham Hotspur. The North Londoners find themselves down in 11th place in the Premier League, and while they have a League Cup semi-final to look forward to, it’s against the seemingly unstoppable Liverpool. However, while the … Read more
Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday summoned the Iranian ambassador over the detention of an Italian journalist in Tehran two weeks ago, demanding her release.
Some of the biggest lenders in the US are beating a retreat from a UN-backed bank climate group in the final weeks before a new Trump administration prepares to take office. The latest big bank to announce it was leaving the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) is Morgan Stanley (MS), which confirmed its exit Thursday … Read more