French central bank chief says ECB intervention not needed to ease bond rout

Emmanuel Moulin also hit out at ‘Trump-style’ threats against him from the far-left

Google launches platform to create video games from text prompts

Big Tech group partners with gaming tools developer Unity as AI disrupts sector

Global bond sell-off resumes as 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002

French, Italian and UK government bonds also come under pressure in volatile trading

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Fortune favours the brave at Paris Fashion Week — some of them anyway

Matthieu Blazy continues to fly high at Chanel while Michael Rider’s Celine offered enchanting everyday clothes. But amid a jittery industry, not every show was a triumph

Kemi Badenoch’s European nightmare

The biggest threat to this potential prime minister is that she defends an unpopular hard Brexit

Germany blocks Chinese acquisition in its largest seaport

Berlin rejects state-owned Cosco’s takeover of a Hamburg port logistics group ‘on security concerns’

Safeguarding rules threaten Burnham’s work experience plans, employers warn

Stricter requirements hit preparations for placements in current academic year

Volkswagen sets aside £725mn for car finance mis-selling scandal

Figure is biggest yet for a car manufacturer and raises total hit to automotive industry to more than £1.5bn

Corporate climate risk picture is still murky

Setbacks have hit drive for expanded reporting by businesses

Eva Langret’s guide to London’s best museums — and the perfect gift shop

The Paris-born artistic director of Frieze London on peerless postmodern architecture, the city’s most underrated museum and the artist who helped her understand the UK

The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum science that he, alongside Einstein, did much to advance

Badenoch pledges to scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Conservative leader pledges to slash levies while accusing Andy Burnham of ‘spending money we don’t have’

UK urged to impose tariffs on Chinese chemical at centre of EU trade dispute

Trade watchdog’s findings leave ministers facing tough decision on whether to follow recommendation

Houthi rebels target Riyadh and Aden in new missile barrage

Assault comes days after government forces announced major offensive to reclaim strategic Bab al-Mandab waterway

Ineos arm’s oil and gas earnings offset chemicals downturn

Division of Jim Ratcliffe’s conglomerate posts loss of €2.2bn last year

David Ellison built a Hollywood colossus. Now he needs to run it

Media mogul faces a steep challenge after closing his $111bn deal to bring together Paramount and Warner Bros

How US mortgage bonds can trigger a ‘vicious loop’ for Treasury yields

One little cog in the bond market’s feedback machine

FirstFT: China’s great tax crackdown

Also in today’s newsletter: Apollo leads $40bn SpaceX fundraising, and ‘danger money’ for ship captains

The best drinking glass? The one you make yourself

HTSI’s drinks columnist turns to glassblowing

Fumagalli & Dossi’s empire of plaster casts

Meet the Milanese duo keeping the gipsoteca alive

Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club review: the glamour of Miami’s golden age

This former playground of Hollywood royalty may be the Magic City’s most atmospheric and alluring hotel

Deadly Russian strikes cut power in several Kyiv districts

Moscow’s latest overnight air attack targets residential buildings and energy infrastructure across Ukraine

AI agents could cost banks $500bn — by winning savers better rates

Banks will gain from AI as well as lose