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Four years after the Arab spring brought hopes of democratic change to the Arab world, the political repression that sparked the popular uprisings has been often been replaced by more autocracy, civil...

6 Jan 20156min

'On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree ...' along with French hens, swans a-laying, lords a-leaping and a sackful of other online orders to put the logistics...

22 Des 20144min

Serial, the hit podcast in which journalist Sarah Koenig investigated the conviction of Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, has concluded its first series. It has been the most successful p...

18 Des 201411min

Richard Mullender is a former hostage negotiator for the UK Metropolitan Police. Listening has been key to his work, he says, and is an under appreciated skill. Today, he teaches it to business execut...

15 Des 20146min

Manj Weerasekera is an executive coach in London. During the course of his work, he met many businessmen who would reveal that they were having relationship problems. A happily divorced man himself, h...

11 Des 20144min

Without global action, drug-resistant infections will cause 10m deaths a year worldwide by 2050 and cost at least $100tn during the next 35 years, according to the first economic analysis of the probl...

11 Des 20146min

Europe's mainstream parties are facing a growing challenge from rightwing anti-immigration parties like the Front National in France and Ukip in Britain. But in Spain, the two parties that have ruled ...

9 Des 20147min

Thousands of foreign fighters have flocked to Syria to help create an austere Islamic state harking back to the past. But as Erika Solomon, FT correspondent in Beirut, found out, they have retained t...

4 Des 20147min