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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The European Court of Justice has ruled that Malta’s “golden passport” scheme violates EU law, in a decision set to force the island to scrap the commercialisation of EU citizenship.“A Member State cannot grant its nationality — and indeed European citizenship — in exchange for pre-determined payments or investments, as this essentially amounts to rendering the acquisition of nationality a mere commercial transaction,” the court said.The European Commission had referred Malta to the bloc’s top court in 2023 over its citizenship-for-investment scheme,…

“Florida implemented a statewide shutdown on the very day of our event,” he said.Mitchell also struggled to get the right workers and equipment needed for the PPV. Flights weren’t available due to the pandemic, forcing Mill to produce the event from California using a cell phone group chat and “last-minute local crew,” per Mitchell. The ENG camera person was much shorter than Mitchell “and had to climb on whatever she could just to keep me in frame,” he recalled.Mitchell said Freedom Factory’s first PPV event had 75,000 concurrent viewers, which caused his website and those of the event sponsors to…

اكتشف باحثون أن جزيئات الذهب النانوية -وهي جزيئات صغيرة جدا من الذهب، أرق آلاف المرات من شعرة الإنسان- يمكن أن تُساعد على استعادة الرؤية لدى الأشخاص المصابين بأمراض شبكية العين. وأجرى الدراسة باحثون من جامعة براون في ولاية رود آيلاند الأميركية، ونُشرت نتائجها في مجلة “إيه سي إس نانو” (ACS Nano) ، وكتب عنها موقع “يوريك أليرت”. وتم اختبار هذه التقنية على الفئران، وأظهرت نتائج الدراسة أن حقن جزيئات الذهب النانوية في الشبكية يمكن أن يُحفّز النظام البصري ويُعيد الرؤية للفئران المصابة بأمراض شبكية العين. وهذه التقنية قد تُمهد الطريق لتطوير نظارات طبية تساعد المرضى على استعادة الرؤية. وتُعد اضطرابات…

BBC Sport look at Barcelona’s journey over the ten years since they last won the Champions League in 2015 and how a new generation of academy players have revitalised the club.

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.The world’s largest oil companies are braced for their toughest year since the coronavirus pandemic, as falling crude prices squeeze profits and shake investor confidence ahead of the quarterly earnings season. This year is set to mark Big Oil’s third consecutive 12-month period of falling profits, which have dropped sharply from the highs of 2022 that followed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The adjusted net income of five of the biggest western oil companies — ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies, Chevron and…

Photograph: AvocadoAvocadoOrganic bedding brand Avocado is running not just an Earth Day sale, but an Earth Month sale that will be available until early May. It’s also a pre-tariffs sale, with prices expected to rise in the near future. Avocado makes a ton of great organic sleep products, particularly its Green Mattress and Eco Mattress Topper. The sale is 10 percent off, which is a price we often see, but it might be the lowest we see for a while after the new tariff prices kick in.NaturepedicNaturepedic is running its biggest sale in honor of the brand’s 22nd birthday (and…

​تستقبلُ العاصمة الأميركية واشنطن هذا الأسبوع اجتماعات الربيع لصندوق النقد الدوليّ والبنك الدوليّ لعام 2025، حيث يشارك وزراء المالية، ومحافظو البنوك المركزية من جميع أنحاء العالم؛ لمناقشة القضايا الاقتصادية العالمية. وبينما تُعدّ هذه الاجتماعات فرصة جيدة لمناقشة التّحديات الاقتصادية الراهنة، والتي تشمل المتاعب المتصاعدة مؤخرًا في العديد من الاقتصادات الكُبرى، على خلفيّة فرض الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب حربًا تجارية على العديد من حلفائه وخصومه، لا نتوقع أن نسمع كثيرًا عن المشكلة الأكثر إلحاحًا، والمتعلّقة بإلغاء ديون الدول النامية، أو إعادة هيكلة بعضها. وعلى مدار سنوات شهدت العديد من الاجتماعات الأخيرة، تكرار مشهد خروج الوزراء ورجال المال والأعمال من السيارات الفارهة…

A British Paralympian who went missing in Las Vegas has been found safe, police in the USA have confirmed. Sam Ruddock, from Rugby in Warwickshire, was reported missing by friends and family after he was last heard from on 16 April.He had travelled to the US on 13 April to watch a Wrestlemania event, with his disappearance reported to Las Vegas police on 24 April. A statement from the force said Ruddock, who has competed in shot put, cycling and sprinting, had been “located safe”.His friend Lucy Hatton had described his disappearance as “really, really out of character” and that…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.HSBC has increased its provisions for bad loans and predicted lending will be muted this year, citing uncertainty, market turmoil and a deteriorating economic outlook from higher tariffs and geopolitical tensions.The UK-based bank raised its expected credit losses by $202mn to $876mn in the first quarter of 2025, slightly higher than analysts’ estimates. The year-on-year increase included $100mn specifically for its exposure to Hong Kong’s commercial property sector.“Given current levels of uncertainty and market turmoil”, the bank expects global demand for lending…

Veterans of the European startup scene, who’ve launched multiple consumer apps in the past, are partly coming out of stealth Tuesday with a new app. On the face of it, Grouphug will simply generate memes from the archive of a group WhatsApp chat. However, that masks a wider play.  Grouphug is led by Felix Petersen, one of the most experienced and seasoned B2C founders in Europe, who built the Amen and Plazes apps.  Right now, all users can do on Grouphug is export the text from a group WhatsApp chat and generate funny images from the content.  However, this is…