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Climate change and the volatility of weather patterns means the provinces strategic syrup reserve, amusing as it sounds, could become a model for other…

Opinion: Elon Musks SpaceX is seizing power in space with satellites 30 Apr, 2021 05:45 AM 5 minutes to read The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off on a mission carrying Starlink satellites on Wednesday evening (US time) from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Photo / AP The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off on a mission carrying Starlink satellites on Wednesday evening (US time) from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Photo / AP Financial Times OPINION: If you have spotted mysterious objects in the sky ...

Art Industry News: Meet the Crypto Bros Who Are the Mega-Collectors of NFT Art (and, Yes, They’re All Men) + Other Stories Plus, the Prado scoops up the earliest known work by Francisco Goya and a performing arts chief departs the West Kowloon Cultural District. April 16, 2021 Nine CryptoPunks being offered at Christies 21st Century Evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christies. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and ar...

Home FirstFT: Today’s top stories FirstFT: Today’s top stories Your daily news briefing 1 Mar 2021 • 5 min read Myanmar’s junta has ordered foreign embassies, UN agencies and other international organisations in the country not to talk to “illegal entities” representing Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, which it forced out of power this month. The regime’s warning to embassies came as representatives of Aung San Suu Kyi’s t...

2021 forecast: Will the stock market go up? Will Biden be a lame-duck president? 30 Dec, 2020 11:00 PM 13 minutes to read Incoming US President Joe Biden faces an uphill battle as he takes over the reins from Donald Trump. Photo / File Incoming US President Joe Biden faces an uphill battle as he takes over the reins from Donald Trump. Photo / File Financial Times A global pandemic was not on FT forecasters radar screen — or anyone elses — one year ago. But it proved, tragically, th...

Being the Christmas Day chef: A ritual to relish 24 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Financial Times By: John Gapper From ceremonial banquets to dinner parties, feasts are important social and familial rituals. At our house, Christmas lunch is the most significant meal of all. But, as the anthropologist Chloe Nahum-Claudel has written, "a feasts consummation is often rather transitory in contrast to the elaborate labours that lead up to it". I know this because some of tho...

Why Americans will be demanding proof of vaccination Why it matters: The federal government will probably neither mandate nor encourage digital immunity passports or other proofs of vaccination. But privately-operated digital certificates are already being developed — and U.S. law means that anybody who gets vaccinated here should be able to obtain the proof they need. The big picture: Your employer has a clear interest in knowing whether you’ve been vaccinated, as do the immigration staff ...

Why Americans will demand to be able to prove theyre vaccinated Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Youve received a coronavirus vaccination — but can you prove it? The answer to that question will help determine how the global economy functions for the next few years. Why it matters: The federal government will probably neither mandate nor encourage digital immunity passports or other proofs of vaccination. But privately-operated digital certificates are already being developed — and U.S. law m...