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As he had done for so many years, in so many places, the photographer Sebastião Salgado stared at human life unblinkingly — this time his own. “We die,” he said when I spoke to him…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the FilmmyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Spoiler alert. A popular verbal obscenity comes midway through…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.For a major part of the second world war, US authorities…

I don’t know who the woman was, but I remember her words exactly. She’d signed up for a bird walk as part of the Galle Literary Festival, a celebration held every year in the fort…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.After the Act tells the story of the UK’s Local…

This week’s puzzle is a chance to enter an annual national contest in which FT readers traditionally perform strongly and in significant numbers. White in the diagram, playing as…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In 1931 the Swiss horologist Louis Cottier filed a patent…

Last May, on a trip to Stockholm, I bought a neon blue, long-sleeve stretchy collared top from second-hand store Arkivet. With a ribbed bodycon fit and buttons down the front, it…

Two of the first places ever listed as Unesco World Heritage sites were, perhaps surprisingly, both in Ecuador; the Galápagos Islands and Quito. The Galápagos we can understand:…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligencemyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The slogan “take back control” taps into something deep…