Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Gold hit a record high on Thursday as investors fretted over potential US tariffs and as a growing bullion stockpile in New York created a shortage in London. The benchmark price rose to $2,798 per […]
In this aerial view melting icebergs crowd the Ilulissat Icefjord on July 16, 2024 near Ilulissat, Greenland. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Major ice loss from Greenland is exposing the island’s natural resources, inadvertently making some of the world’s largest untapped critical mineral reserves more accessible. Greenland, a vast but sparsely […]
Restorers at a famous Gothic church in Germany have discovered a “huge fortune” that was hidden in the leg of a statue nearly 400 years ago. The treasure — four bags of coins from the 1600s — was likely concealed during the Thirty Years’ War, when Swedish soldiers frequently plundered the region. The discovery is […]
We know, the festive season has barely lapsed, and most of us are struggling to part ways with dressing gowns and PJs worn for a day or two too long—not even a week into the year, high glamour probably isn’t top of your dressing agenda. It ishowever, for Hollywood’s pantheon of stars, as the 2025 […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The price of gold is set to rise further in 2025, say Wall Street analysts, although the pace of gains is likely to slow after last year’s bumper 27 per cent rally. Gold is expected […]
Young announced that he’ll be releasing a new album, Talking to the Treeswith the Chrome Hearts For the first time in nearly two decades, Neil Young performed his song “Silver and Gold,” sharing it in a video for his fans on Instagram. Written in the early Eighties, “Silver and Gold” has only been performed by […]
Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.
The supernatural mystery series “Light Shop” has become Disney+‘s biggest Korean original premiere of 2024, according to data from its first 12 days of streaming. The show ranks as the second-largest Korean series debut ever on the platform globally, trailing only “Moving” – both series created by webtoon artist Kangfull. This success follows Disney+’s November […]
An American woman who arrived in Australia to attend clown school with a gold-plated pistol in her luggage has been jailed for a year. Liliana Goodson, a 30-year-old American woman, pleaded guilty to charges of illegally importing a firearm and ammunition, in contravention of Australia’s strict gun laws. She was sentenced on Monday to 12 […]
More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa’s eastern Mpumalanga province. Police say three bodies were recovered earlier this week on the first day of the rescue operation. Most of those rescued, reportedly foreign nationals, claim they were forced underground against their will to search for gold. A […]
