The Netherlands has learnt to manage flooding. Climate-threatened countries are taking note

Plus: Sotheby’s lays out risks; Ropac lends space to emerging artists; Cameroon artists fare well at 1-54

State-owned oil company’s $1.7tn valuation falls short of kingdom’s ambitions

Countries from Jordan to Egypt will struggle to mitigate the pandemic’s economic impact

How a squabble between Saudi Arabia and Russia led to ‘the nuclear version of a price war’

Group to shrink operations in Europe, Japan, and Brazil

Neobank’s funding round sets new valuation parameters; De La Rue battles to last a decade

Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Tata’s chief executive, forecasts a major shift to more flexible working arrangements

How plants, whether real or in the imagination, help calm fears and enhance our lives

EU hosts online pledging event but €7.5bn target for vaccines, testing and treatment will only be first step

Premium offered for shares as group seeks to pay back debt owed by its parent company

Investors should welcome the chance to bail out for a 29% premium to Friday’s $13 undisturbed closing price

From greenhouses to screenhouses, these properties will make your green fingers twitch

Running downstairs is b-o-r-i-n-g when you can slide or use a fireman’s pole instead

Optimism of large chains belies scepticism that film goers will flock back

Although it suffers from lack of independence, it should be fixed rather than scrapped

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

As the final object is revealed, FT arts editor Jan Dalley talks to Peter Aspden about the significance of the BBC Radio 4 series 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' presented by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.  

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The sheer scale of suffering in the 1914-18 conflict is hard to grasp. As preparations begin for the centenary commemoration, the FT’s arts editor argues that culture has a vital role to play  

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In a special episode to mark the publication of The Life of a Song book, FT pop critics Helen Brown, David Cheal and Ludovic Hunter-Tilney debate whether a song can really change the world. Hear the stories behind the hits, from Bowie's 'Starman' to Jay-Z's 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)'.  

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Governments are fighting to keep the coronavirus pandemic at bay and their economies afloat

Have you been mis-sold pensions advice? FT Money Show presenter Claer Barrett talks to the FT's pensions expert Josephine Cumbo about the suitability of financial advice in relation to retirement planning. Next up on the show we discuss how the new bank overdraft rules could affect you. And finally, does your financial adviser speak your language? FT columnist Moira O'Neill has spoken out against the widespread use of Latin terms in the investment world - should it be allowed to continue ad infinitum?   

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Plea for increased humanitarian help has gone unanswered and funding is set to be cut further

How much sleep do we need to get the most out of our waking hours?

Second largest cinema chain sides with rival in spat over movie release

Litigation battles, fear turns to lawsuits, and a data security flaw

As chief executive of 23andMe, she holds the key to a vast genetic database. What will she do with it?

Amity between old adversaries almost certain to crumble once first ball is bowled

Live coverage of the UK election campaign.

As the world’s largest carbon emitter, China will be in the spotlight at this week’s UN climate summit in New York.  Beijing has taken steps to tackle its pollution problems in recent years, but is it working? Pilita Clark puts this question to Leslie Hook, environment correspondent, and Lucy Hornby, deputy Beijing bureau chief. 

Contributors: Pilita Clark, business columnist, Leslie Hook, environment correspondent, and Lucy Hornby, deputy Beijing bureau chief.  Producer: Fiona Symon

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Around the world a pensions crisis is looming. Retirees are having their pensions cuts while governments and fund managers look for new strategies. Josephine Cumbo, pensions correspondent and Robin Wigglesworth, global finance correspondent tell Claer Barrett why pension funds are investing in riskier assets and what this means for the future of retirement.

Contributors: Claer Barrett, personal finance editor, Josephine Cumbo, pensions correspondent and Robin Wigglesworth, global finance correspondent. Producer: Persis Love

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Wildlife conservation used to be largely financed by wealthy donors and governments. Now, efforts to attract institutional investors are showing significant potential, as a recent Rhino Bond launched by the Zoological Society of London, the FT’s seasonal appeal partner this year, showed. Oliver Withers, ZSL’s head of conservation finance and Aunnie Patton Power, expert in innovative investing and impact finance talk to John Aglionby about the changing landscape of conservation financing. Visit the FT’s seasonal appeal page to donate here

Contributors: John Aglionby, assistant UK news editor, Oliver Withers, ZSL’s head of conservation finance and Aunnie Patton Power, expert in innovative investing and impact finance. Producer: Fiona Symon. Editor: Breen Turner

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Tuesday, March 17

Governments in all large western economies took drastic measures to limit public movement on Monday in an urgent effort to arrest the spreading coronavirus pandemic while US stocks plunged despite a set of emergency measures laid out by the Federal Reserve on Sunday. Plus, an analysis by the Financial Times finds that the UK and the US have key weaknesses in their healthcare systems which could trigger a collapse if put to the test by the outbreak. 

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Boss of clothing retailer deserves a premium; Astra’s eyes on big prize

Tetra Pak’s innovation overtook the glass bottle but it needs to be improved

The valuation of an energy company cannot be engineered like the production of oil

Chinese producer moves to offload some of its majority holding in Australia’s Greenbushes project

Oil price collapse triggered by coronavirus pandemic almost halves Anglo-Dutch group’s earnings

Move could pave way for company to shift primary listing to London

As global lockdowns boost streaming subscriptions, filming freezes spell trouble ahead

What is it that makes an online performance really sing?

Fortnite is typical of the new business model, renting access to a platform

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]

Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore

A startup that’s hoping to be a contender in the very large and fragmented market of human resources software has captured the eye of a big investor out of the US and become its first investment in Spain. Barcelona-based Factorial, which is building an all-in-one HR automation platform aimed at small and medium businesses that manages […]

Todd Chaffee has long been one of the most senior members of the late-stage venture firm Institutional Venture Partners. Chaffee joined IVP in 2000 after logging six years at Visa, and went on to lead rounds in numerous prominent later-stage companies, many (but not all) of which have gone public, including Coinbase, Compass, Klarna, Kayak, […]

The notion of the west as an alliance with moral foundations would evaporate if the president wins

A microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin

If you find voice assistants frustratingly dumb, you’re hardly alone. The much-hyped promise of AI-driven vocal convenience very quickly falls through the cracks of robotic pedantry. A smart AI that has to come back again (and sometimes again) to ask for extra input to execute your request can seem especially dumb — when, for example, […]

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]