Heathrow warns that third runway costs risk an HS2-style spiral
Airport proposes setting up oversight panel to keep project on track
Corebridge and Equitable tie-up goes for endurance more than flair
Unusually for a merger, the share prices of the two companies barely moved after the deal was announced
Market sell-off accelerates and oil climbs as Trump’s Iran deadline looms
US president repeats claim that Tehran ‘begging to make a deal’ but says he is unsure he will be able to find an agreement
The US needs a low-cost airline consolidator, but JetBlue isn’t it
Heavily indebted, unprofitable carrier might not make an ideal partner
New ancient human relative unearthed in Egypt
Discovery of 18mn-year-old fossil suggests modern apes may have originated in northeastern Afro-Arabia
Mastercard looks to unwind biggest ever acquisition
Credit card group seeks to sell payments unit acquired for $3.2bn in 2019 for less than it paid
US senators aim to sanction Hungary over obstructing Ukraine aid
Bipartisan bill from Shaheen and Tillis comes as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán holds up €90bn loan to Kyiv
OpenAI makes a ‘Code Red’ turn in strategy
The company shows some business discipline in ditching Sora video app and plans for erotic chatbot
Jaguar Land Rover to shut UK plant for almost two weeks after supplier fire
Latest blow comes just months after £260mn cyber attack halted production
Iran’s hardline new leaders take control
US-Israeli assassinations have left a regime that looks more hawkish at home and abroad
Hungary’s pivotal election
Could this be the end of the Orbán era?
FT quiz: the week in news
Ten topical questions to test your news nous
The NHS’s uncertain future
Also in this week’s newsletter, London’s housing crisis
In search of Albion — the folklore, myths and magic that built British culture
Three books take a tour through history to unpick the facts and fictions that still inform the national sense of identity
Six films to watch this week
Naples magnificently portrayed in ‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’; a search for justice in Stalin-era drama ‘Two Prosecutors’; literary biography meets 21st-century anxiety in ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’; open-marriage comedy ‘Splitsville’; Ryan Gosling goes intergalactic in space epic ‘Project Hail Mary’; ‘Dead Man
Odey fired executives for telling him to ‘sit in dungeons’ to protect women
Financier told court he objected to safeguarding measures, including sitting on a lower floor, firm imposed after misconduct claims
Splitsville — careening open-marriage comedy gets physical
Co-writers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin come to blows as friends fighting over Adria Arjona and Dakota Johnson
Trump’s war is delivering a gut punch to the US economy
A supply chain crisis will hit ordinary Americans with higher prices at a time when they are already feeling stretched
Orwell: 2+2=5 — literary biography meets two-hour anxiety trigger
Documentarist Raoul Peck updates the author’s warnings about the danger of totalitarianism for our grim decade
Reader callout: Are you a business owner fretting over succession plans?
Cap on inheritance tax relief to take effect from next month
Geese bring New York rock back to life in thrilling London show
Upgraded to a larger venue, the band performed their acclaimed third album ‘Getting Killed’ to a rapturous crowd at the Eventim Apollo
The relentless march of the omniscalers
Tech giants such as Alphabet, Amazon, Alibaba and Huawei are commanding enormous global resources
Two Prosecutors — punishment without crime in Stalin’s Soviet Union
An idealistic young jurist battles a system of Kafkaesque logic in a deeply unsettling drama from Ukraine’s Sergei Loznitsa
‘Just call us the Antwerp Six’
How six Belgian designers challenged bourgeois fashion in the 1980s — and why they are still relevant today