Placement follows warning that virus had caused “material deceleration” in business

World’s fleet under renewed pressure to clean up its act and curb greenhouse gases

China shutdown leaves crews stuck at sea, shipyards deserted and shipowners hunting for work

China’s exports show signs of recovery but demand falters in US and Europe

Marine operators are looking to clean up their act

Subsidies and freebies to retain cash-strapped users add to sector’s financial burden

After lockdown, start-ups will need to work with city authorities to keep cars off the roads

Returning land and native species to nature grips the imagination. But not everyone is convinced

Style options distilled from a confluence of African, Arab and Mediterranean cultures

Brooding subject matter meets richly detailed music in the British rapper’s fifth album

The American singer’s album is sexually frank, with harmonies reminiscent of Mariah Carey

Analysis shows Bame groups exposed to greater socio-economic and work risks

Alstom will have its work cut out to get the Canadian group’s margins back on track, but greater scale would help it compete with industry leader CRRC

Tory manifesto pledge aimed at ‘levelling up’ the regions of Britain faces uphill struggle

Minister omits eastern leg to Yorkshire in statement on high-speed rail project

Move comes after Moody’s predicts £400m blow to transport network’s income

London mayor wants to renegotiate £2bn of existing loans with government to ease cash flow

Awarding of franchises allows skeleton services to continue on Southeastern and Great Western lines

Taipei says foreign visitors will be allowed to enter once a vaccine is discovered

Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!

The opposition leader on Covid-19, dealing with Corbyn’s legacy and holding Downing St to account

Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!

French patient who fell ill in December found to have had Covid-19 after samples retested

Concern in Beijing that accounting scandal could damage other overseas listings

Coffee chain lays down plans for 90% of its domestic market cafés to be open by early June

Food and farm industry desperate to shift mountain of produce as pandemic decimates demand

Tyson Foods chief warns of supply shortages that critics blame on concentrated production line

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss whether regulators are easing up on bank capital rules, tough times for UK peer-to-peer lenders, and why Goldman Sachs is planning to bring wealth management to the masses. With special guest Harald Benink, professor of banking and finance at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Struggling parents demand help as work dries up due to coronavirus crisis

UN official warns that war-ravaged country cannot deal with an outbreak of the disease

Most mosques shuttered and gatherings banned as Islamic world prepares for holy month

Pandemic stopped protests in Iraq, Algeria and Lebanon, but crisis likely to fuel fresh wave of unrest

Islamic republic eases coronavirus restrictions in effort to boost struggling economy

Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s appointment gives country its first functioning government in 6 months

Stylists advise on how to look professional when working remotely. Join a live discussion on Friday April 24 at noon and 5pm

A colourful pair can elevate an outfit out of the style doldrums

Conservative activists vow to step up street demonstrations against business closings

US president assessing need for further moves to reduce immigration

In America, lawsuits are the way we make up new rules in a crisis

Rally in Greece’s sovereign bonds comes after election victory for centre-right party

From business closures to movement restrictions, some countries’ policies show first signs of easing

Find any country in the customisable version of the Covid-19 trajectory charts

How best to celebrate Chekhov's 150th anniversary? Sky Arts 2 have chosen to mark the occasion with "chekhov: comedy shorts" - four one-act plays transposed to the small screen, with a cast of well-known comedians including Johnny Vegas and Steve Coogan. But do they make good television? In this week's arts podcast, Neville Hawcock, the FT's deputy arts editor, talks to the paper's theatre critic, Sarah Hemming, and television columnist, John Lloyd, about the venture.  

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It premiered at Cannes to cheers and boos, and went on to win the Palm D’Or. Some called it a masterpiece; others dismissed it as overblown nonsense. But what’s so divisive about Terrence Malick’s ambitious new film? It’s a coming-of-age story set in 1950s Texas but it also has long sequences that explore the natural world and the origins of the universe. Does it work? And is its strong religious strain likely to turn off non-believers? Raphael Abraham is joined in the studio by Nick James, editor of Sight & Sound magazine, Peter Aspden, FT arts writer, and Leo Robson, film critic. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  

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She's the most successful female recording artist ever – and now, 30 years after her first single, Madonna has released her twelfth album, 'MDNA'. It's already caused a stir, with the video for the opening track 'Girl Gone Wild' banned on YouTube for being 'too raunchy'. But is she still good? What's more important: Madonna the brand or the artist? And, at 53, should she really be wearing those hot pants? Neville Hawcock puts these questions to FT writers Lucy Kellaway, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and Richard Clayton. With clips from 'Girl Gone Wild', 'I'm a Sinner' and 'I'm Addicted'. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  

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Documentary films are breaking UK box office records and are, arguably, having more success than ever before. As "The Queen of Versailles", one of the hits of this year's Sundance Film Festival, heads for UK cinemas, Raphael Abraham discusses the new appetite for reality with critics Nigel Andrews and Leslie Felperin  

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