Rum, a diamond-shaped island off the western coast of Scotland, is home to 40 people. Most of the island — 40 square miles of mountains, peatland and heath — is a national nature reserve, with residents mainly nestled around Kinloch Bay to the east. What the Isle of Rum lacks is artificial illumination. There are … Read more
Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time? The company’s second lander, named Athena, launched on Wednesday evening on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on an arcing path to … Read more
Starship — the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — is back on a launch mount in South Texas and ready for its eighth test flight. On Monday night, SpaceX flight controllers halted their countdown with about 30 seconds to go, and then decided several minutes later that they … Read more
Matt West is investing for his three young children so they’ll have money to use as house deposits when they’re older. He tops up their junior Isas, which he holds on platform Hargreaves Lansdown, with regular monthly direct debits, plus any money the children get for Christmas. “I’ve tried to look at investments that will … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The government is looking to block HM Revenue & Customs’ plans to apply VAT to UK investment fund services, following a backlash from senior City executives. The tax authority was seeking to end an exemption … Read more
NASA is aiming to send astronauts back to the moon, because that is what President Trump set as the destination of the agency’s human spaceflight program during his first term. On Dec. 11, 2017, Mr. Trump signed what the White House called Space Policy Directive 1, which stated that “the United States will lead the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Sovereign bonds myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors and businesses are trying to figure out what, exactly, the US’s endgame is with tariffs against its three biggest trading partners. US stocks are down again, even after another round of tariff relief was … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management and author of “Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side” The questions I get from clients enable me to understand in real … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s almost 20 years since Industrial and Commercial Bank of China raised $22bn in a Hong Kong listing — the largest in history at the time. Since then, the city has been the go-to place … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The euro has a “clear path” to bolster its position as a global reserve currency to rival the US dollar and must take advantage of the huge opportunities it now faces, according to the president … Read more