The UK government has approached consultancies about taking the role of special administrator in a sign that ministers are bracing themselves for the imminent renationalisation of Thames Water.

Barclays is proposing to overhaul how it pays its chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan in a move that would slash his fixed pay but hand him £9mn if the lender hits its profitability targets.

There’s still two weeks to go until the FT Alphaville Pub Quiz lands in Washington DC on Feb 6. We’re busy writing questions in preparation — and there’s still space to compete if you’re interested.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was sentenced to life with a minimum of 52 years in prison on Thursday after admitting to the murder of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine ...

The president complained about the bishop’s mixing of religion and politics but in his version of Christianity the two are intertwined ...

Leading Japanese media company accused of mishandling incident involving Masahiro Nakai and unidentified woman ...

A memoir by the artist’s nephew details how his vivid portraits of working-class life remained undiscovered until his death ...

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning start-up Neko Health has raised $260mn in new capital to fuel expansion of its clinics to the US, ...

Happy Thursday. This week, a man who took satisfaction in an insurrection against the US on his behalf became the 47th US ...

Osamu Inoue, president of Sumitomo Electric, which makes parts for Volkswagen, Toyota and Stellantis, among others, said ...

Japan’s biggest banks are nearing a key valuation level for the first time in almost a decade as investors bet that the Bank ...

Shake with ice and then either strain into a cocktail glass, sans ice, or serve over crushed ice in a rocks glass. Some ...