Struck by cancer in his early 30s, Cláudio found solace in a pastime that has hooked millions of his fellow Brazilians: online gambling.Punts on football results were “just a bit of fun” at first, but following his diagnosis a few years ago the wagers grew bigger. As his losses racked…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Paraguay’s conservative president Santiago Peña faces pressure from investors and diplomats to veto a contentious law backed by allies of the country’s most powerful man, who helped propel Peña himself to power.The…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Five people were taken to hospital and 62 detained in Amsterdam after what authorities called an outburst of antisemitic violence towards fans of a Tel Aviv football club following clashes with pro-Palestinian…

Voting has begun in the US presidential election after Kamala Harris and Donald Trump raced across key battleground states in the final hours of what polls suggest is one of the closest contests in modern history.Polls opened at 6am on Tuesday morning in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, New York,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Quincy Jones, the US musician, media mogul and producer of some of the world’s top-selling albums including Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Bad and Off the Wall, has died aged 91.His publicist, Arnold Robinson,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Indian conglomerate Adani Group has begun to curb electricity supplies to Bangladesh and threatened to completely shut down power exports as the new government in Dhaka struggles with a backlog of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Kemi Badenoch has been elected the new Conservative leader, with a vow to reset the party’s thinking and politics after its catastrophic election defeat this summer.The former business secretary won 57 per…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Profits at ExxonMobil and Chevron fell in the third quarter as lower commodity prices and weaker refining margins outweighed the US oil groups’ soaring production, mirroring hits to their European…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.UK borrowing costs climbed on Thursday, touching their highest levels of the year, as bond investors worried about the additional borrowing that chancellor Rachel Reeves set out in the Budget.The yield on…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Alphabet’s profit jumped 34 per cent in the third quarter as the parent company of search giant Google reported strong growth in its cloud business amid robust demand for computing and data…