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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Tesla’s deliveries jumped 25 per cent in the second quarter, far exceeding market expectations, as rising fuel prices from the Middle East conflict boosted sales of its electric vehicles in Europe. The US carmaker delivered 480,126 vehicles in the three months to the end of June, up from 384,122 in the same period last year and well above analysts’ forecasts of 404,000. Tesla lost its crown as the world’s biggest electric-car maker to China’s BYD last year amid a consumer backlash against chief…

A bitcoin company that Nigel Farage has advertised lost more than 15% of its asset value, prompting finance experts to warn investors against those types of firms.The Reform UK leader has invested £215,000 in a bitcoin treasury company named Stack BTC. A bitcoin treasury buys the cryptocurrency on behalf of its shareholders, and Stack aims to purchase other companies with the increase in value it gets from holding bitcoin.However, the company’s investments have fallen 15.48% since its launch in March this year, which is a loss of £565,000.The Liberal Democrats have called for MPs to be banned from “flogging” specific…

The UK government breached environmental law on several occasions when granting farmers permission to use a bee-killing pesticide, a watchdog has found.In 2023 and 2024, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in the then Conservative government granted emergency authorisation to allow farmers to use a banned neonicotinoid pesticide on sugar beet crops.The pesticide, Cruiser SB, contains the active ingredient thiamethoxam. One teaspoon of this is enough to kill 1.25bn honeybees, according to Prof Dave Goulson, a bee expert at the University of Sussex.After a complaint by the campaign group ClientEarth, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), which…

Credit: Monty Rakusen/GettyIn April, Nature published advice from doctoral candidates and PhD holders who had managed the unthinkable: pursuing their PhD nine-to-five, or thereabouts.In response to a follow up poll in the Nature Briefing newsletter, 20% of 6,046 past and present doctoral students said that they spent up to 40 hours per week on their PhDs. But the vast majority — 78% — spent more than that, with some saying their PhDs required at least 80 hours a week (see ‘Clocking in’).Readers were asked to reflect on the concept of a nine-to-five PhD. Here’s what they had to say.Creativity doesn’t…

Key eventsMoving around the courts, Sakkari leads Rakhimova 6-3 0-5; Khachanov leads Hanfmann 6-3 6-4 2-2; and Duckworth leads Cobolli 6-7 6-3 4-3, so I’m going to turn off Fearnley, who’s two sets and a break down to Munar to watch that one.ShareNext on No 1 Court: Jakub Mensik (15) v Grigor Dimitrov.ShareZverev says for two and half sets he played an almost perfect match, then lost a bit of focus and concentration. He’s happy not to have played another set though he loves playing at Wimbledon and isn’t old yet but he’s getting to that point and needs to…

EXCLUSIVE: After 13 seasons, original cast member LaRoyce Hawkins is leaving the NBC police procedural as a series regular, sources tell Deadline. He will return to wrap up his character Kevin Atwater’s storyline in the first two or three episodes of the upcoming Season 14, we hear. Chicago P.D. is currently casting a new series regular, a Black cop who is an agent of chaos. A rep for Wolf Entertainment, which produces the One Chicago franchise with Universal Television, declined comment. Cast changes after each season of Chicago shows have become commonplace. Ahead of Season 13, Toya Turner left Chicago…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has entered the knockout stages, yet it has been remarkable not only for being the biggest in football history so far, but also for its unusual moments. It has delivered remarkable fan antics, underdog stories, emotional scenes and controversial decisions. On a personal note, because I’m visiting the US and Canada, two of the three North American hosts, I’m enjoying what I have often taken for granted, watching global games on live TV in my part of the world.  Replays are not my thing. I’m not sure I would have been able to follow the…

Smoke poured from the roof of a six-story hotel in central Kyiv on Thursday morning. Two ladder trucks sprayed jets of water that sent debris tumbling to the sidewalk below, where dozens of firefighters were gathered.They trudged in and out of the stately building in central Kyiv’s Shevchenko district, their faces sooty and red. Some sat down along a fence, chugging water in the summer heat and staring up at the burning building in front of them.It was one of many blazes in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday as Russia launched one of its deadliest barrages in recent weeks. At…

Allan Madrigal, a paramedic with the Costa Rican Red Cross, told journalists at the site that Gil had “emerged just perfect” from the ordeal.Madrigal is the rescuer who heard Gil’s faint cries for help emerging from the rubble on Sunday. “It was an emotional moment,” he recalled, explaining that at first he had not trusted his own ears and asked a colleague to confirm that he “wasn’t just imagining it”.From that moment on, rescuers raced to try and dig the security guard out. Gil had been on duty in a small concrete booth in the basement of the parking lot…

Jersey Mike’s Subs Inc., the sandwich chain backed by Blackstone Inc., filed for an initial public offering that would join a rebound in US listing activity.