American held by al Qaeda urges Obama for help
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A US development worker kidnapped in Pakistan by al Qaeda two years ago appeals to President...
Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project | FT World
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Crossrail, London's £14.8bn rail programme, is approaching its halfway mark. Mark Odell reports on the magnitude...
China still key to Walmart growth | FT Business
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Walmart's expansion of its Sam's Club chain, which targets increasingly affluent Chinese customers in the country's...
Human evolution’s creative drive
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Culture, via language and cooperative behaviour, evolves hand-in-hand with our genes. So says Professor Mark Pagel,...
2014: bonds
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The Federal Reserve will begin tapering its bond purchases in 2014, but has also guided the...
Globalisation in reverse
Before the financial crisis the interconnections between countries were growing. Ralph Atkins, capital markets editor, explains to John Authers the results of an FT...
Malawi cash crisis hits cancer children
Children's ward regularly runs short of essential and chemotherapy drugs
Problems with funding by the Malawi government are hitting children's wards hard and cancer patients...
Violence mars Bangladesh election
After an election whose outcome was never in doubt, the South Asian nation now faces a period of uncertainty as the country waits to...
Mother knows best in Indonesia’s second city
Politicians in Indonesia are generally regarded as arrogant, inefficient and corrupt. But Tri Risma Harini, the mayor of Surabaya, is one of a handful...
2014: commodities
Commodities have been falling for a couple of years and the correlation between stocks and the metals market has broken down. John Authers considers...
