Author: Olivia Carter

Ukraine and the UK are to deepen their defence cooperation by jointly producing long-range drones, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday after talks with Keir Starmer in Downing Street aimed at forcing Russia to “think about peace”.Zelenskyy said his main objective was “to save as many lives as possible” and to “stop Russian terror”. Writing on social media, he called for “maximum political and diplomatic coordination” and closer work on “joint defence projects and weapons production”.Speaking at the Chatham House thinktank, Ukraine’s president said both countries would begin co-producing “long-range drones” soon. He declined to give details, but the drones are…

Lucy Hooker and Emma HaslettBusiness reportersGetty ImagesOil prices have fallen nearly 4%, despite an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.Over the weekend the United States bombed nuclear sites in Iran, which prompted a retaliatory attack by Iran on a US base in Qatar on Monday.In response, the price of Brent crude oil rose to its highest in five months after markets opened in London.But it fell back by mid-morning and was hovering around $74 at the end of the trading day in the UK. Oil traded in the US also fell sharply, by around 7% to $68 a…

Andy Konwinski, computer scientist and co-founder of Databricks and Perpelexity, announced on Monday that his personal company, Laude, is forming a new AI research institute backed with a $100 million pledge of his own money. Laude Institute is less an AI research lab and more like a fund looking to make investments structured similar to grants. In addition to Konwinski, the institute’s board includes UC Berkeley professor Dave Patterson (known for a string of award-winning research), Jeff Dean (known as Google’s chief scientist), and Joelle Pineau (Meta’s vice president of AI Research). Konwinski announced the institute’s first and “flagship” grant…

The Gilded Age is a curious, unwieldy thing. It is rich in qualities that I love, such as Broadway stars of a certain pedigree and truly extravagant hats. But, for a series that clearly takes a great effort to make, at what appears to be an enormous expense, it is oddly slight. The events of New York society in the late 19th century glide on by, as women dressed in fine, frilly clothing dip in and out of dramas that are sometimes important, sometimes entirely trivial, but almost always afforded equal weight, regardless of how much they matter. To watch…

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The US is in a record-breaking heatwave, with tens of millions people on alert. A persistent heat dome is blanketing much of the midwest and spanning through the north-east. The phenomenon traps hot air and humidity, and exacerbates the “feels like” temperature to much higher than it actually is.Health experts and climate scientists described the effects of extreme heat on the human body, which populations are most at risk and ways to mitigate it.What is heat stress and what causes it?It occurs when the body experiences a buildup of heat, at a level that is more than what it can…

The Monday MLB schedule features several notable MLB matchups, but only nine total games. One of the most high-profile matchups of the day is Mets vs. Braves in a showdown between NL East rivals at 7:10 p.m. in New York. Atlanta will have Spencer Schwellenbach (5-4, 3.26 ERA) on the mound, while Paul Blackburn (0-1, 6.92 ERA) will be making his third start of the season for the Mets. The SportsLine Projection Model is calling for a solid performance from Blackburn on Monday, with the veteran righthander projected to go over 3.5 strikeouts at +114 odds (risk $100 to win…

If you’re someone who’s fascinated by all things aviation—commercial planes, space travel, aerodynamics—there are more than a handful of places you can go to learn more in person. “Aviation museums preserve the stories and breakthroughs that shaped flight. For many of us in the aviation world, they’re a lasting source of inspiration,” Matteo Atti, chief marketing officer at Vista, a private aviation group, tells Travel + Leisure. And some of the very best aviation museums are located right here in the U.S. Together with Atti and Abigail Erickson-Torres, the president and CEO of Frontiers of Flight Museum, we put together…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Andy Baldwin, the British consulting executive who lost the race to become global boss of EY, has joined IBM in another example of the US technology group recruiting a senior figure from the Big Four.Baldwin, an architect of EY’s unsuccessful attempt to spin off its advisory arm, will become general managing partner at IBM Consulting, the company announced on Monday.The role puts him in charge of growth and service offerings at a big EY competitor, a year and a half after he…

He’s also not the only researcher working to expose plants to higher radiation levels than previously studied. Porterfield, who is one of the scientists working on NASA’s LEAF mission—a lunar plant-growth experiment that will go to the moon with Artemis III in 2027—says we know “almost nothing” about the impact of radiation exposure beyond low Earth orbit. Understanding how variability in radiation impacts plants will be a “critical focus” of the LEAF mission.“We’ve been trapped in lower orbit for the last 30 years and haven’t advanced a lot of the basic research that we need to go to deep space,…