UK group points to ‘material uncertainty’ if a turnround plan does not tackle debt pile

Many see the epidemic as divine retribution for our sins

Coronavirus is depriving the former vice-president of a real campaign

Fears of Russian influence revive drive to track corporations’ true owners

Financial markets watchdog positions as defender of Main Street investors

Chipmaker resolved legal battle with the iPhone maker last month

Gideon Rachman discusses the crisis in Britain's relations with the US following the unscheduled departure of Kim Darroch as ambassador to Washington, with Ed Luce and Geoff Dyer.

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The judicial inquiry into alleged graft under the presidency of Jacob Zuma is laying bare the divisions of the ruling ANC. Gideon Rachman discusses Mr Zuma's testimony with Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg and David Pilling, Africa editor.

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Bloc faces worst recession in its history as report calls for pan-European recovery plan

Supply chains at breaking point as surge of coronavirus patients with kidney side effects hits supplies

Routine operations ban to be eased but capacity to handle virus resurgence will remain

Killings in Dera’a province are testing Syrian leader’s alliance with Russia

UK government support needed to ensure supply of food and medicines

Postponement comes as Swedish group wins 5G core contract after Chinese rival blocked on security concerns 

Coronavirus puts into perspective the cult of perfection in interior design

Eric Clapton’s collaborator Duane Allman helped transform the song into a bravura rock showpiece

London Underground and other locally run services were excluded from previous coronavirus aid packages

Three quarters of leisure operators say margins too thin to support fewer customers, according to survey

Documents seen by FT show demand for face masks and aprons was close to outstripping national supplies

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss what Citigroup's results tell us about the US bank earnings season, Standard Chartered chief Bill Winters' defiant response to investor criticism of his pay packet, and how banks are tackling the problem of money laundering, With special guest Brandon Daniels of Exiger 

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Robert Armstrong, US banking editor, David Crow, banking editor, and Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the health of German banks in the wake of bearish comments from Moody's and the Bundesbank, Unicredit's potential share buyback and why European banks appear to be retrenching in the US. With special guest Magdalena Stoklosa head of European banks research at Morgan Stanley.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss the latest from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the outlook for Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase's decision to buy a second office in Paris. With special guest Brian Moynihan, chief executive of Bank of America. 

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Laura Noonan, US banking editor, and Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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The Trump administration’s small business bailout programme has been plagued by problems from the start, with complaints that large companies crowded out the kinds of small enterprises and independent contractors it was designed to help. With a fresh round of funding on offer from Washington, we hear from several business owners trying to get their share, as well as the FT’s Laura Noonan who has been reporting on the programme since it launched. 

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Bailiffs’ move in Netherlands escalates dispute between businessman and Cairo

‘The Impossible Collection’ offers a 9.5kg overview of the designer’s whole career

President says restrictions will apply to green card applicants aiming for permanent residency

Pandemic is causing the biggest disruption in decades to economies across the world

‘Robot and Frank’ paints a benign picture of silicon-based life-forms. But the film’s ‘near-future’ setting is one that often wrong-foots screenwriters  

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The BBC’s self-parodying show goes too far – in the direction of complacency, complicity and all-round smugness. But comedy can be a remarkable force for exposing the flaws of the society from which it springs  

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A brush with institutional hauteur in Nice makes the FT’s arts writer long for the determinedly inclusive museums and galleries of the UK  

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As Sotheby’s prepares for a selling exhibition of the street artist’s work the FT’s arts writer reflects on shock culture – and the art market’s appetite for it.  

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From heartfelt but humble song to all-conquering power ballad, Peter Aspden tells the ultimately tragic story of 'Without You'  

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G20 agriculture ministers urge governments not to disrupt global supply chains

Claer Barrett and Lucy Warwick-Ching discuss covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money, and columnist James Max reveals that his biggest problem during the lockdown has been keeping his house clean without his regular cleaner. 

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Reduction is second in under a month as country braces for an extended coronavirus lockdown

Century-old agriculture lender is latest state group in need of government support

Coronavirus package aims to protect economy and fend off looming hunger crisis

Ramaphosa administration wants phased reopening to limit damage to struggling economy

Five-week shutdown to be eased stage by stage according to a series of rolling levels  

Use of community health workers to identify cases draws heavily on experience battling tuberculosis and HIV

The country’s new-wave wine producers have different ideas about what an Argentine Malbec should be

Entertainment group scraps dividend as executives promise it will weather storm

About 2m businesspeople thought to be ineligible for existing coronavirus support schemes

Mel Stride, former Treasury minister, calls for help for business owners who pay themselves in dividends

Finance minister also says companies cannot pay dividends while receiving government money 

Better education about retirement benefits is crucial at any age

Couples share how they divide their incomes and outgoings — and joint accounts are falling out of favour

New chancellor Rishi Sunak would be wise to avoid slashing pension perks 

Business ease in adapting to lockdowns changes attitudes to remote set-ups