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The week that shook football

How Fifa’s proposal to open up the global game to investors unfolded — and invited a backlash that could yet topple its controversial president

Plus, NFL teams lose money too

Inside the tumult at Situational Awareness and Fifa abandons its World Cup deal

Labour Party overtakes Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in some polls after new prime minister finds feel-good tone

Daily trades jump in July as FTSE 100 hits record high

Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt

Wildfire on Paros that started in a saturated landfill leads to mayor’s arrest

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

The campaign he started online while completing a master’s degree galvanised millions to take to the streets

Surge in savers hit by pension tax charges due to complex rules, say wealth managers

The possibility of consumers delegating financial tasks to agentic AI poses a new risk for lenders

External threats should make western societies less polarised in future

Opposition leaders refuse to join negotiations and government hardliners burn US flags

Nicknamed ‘Dr Death’, his Body Worlds exhibitions drew millions of visitors worldwide

Investors finally show signs of growing weary of the painfully obvious nonsense

In 2002, a group of friends from North Carolina told a story that ruined all their lives. What if it wasn’t true?

A fractured thumb, a footballer’s letter, a girl band in Suffolk — FT writers revisit the season that made them who they are

From a Cotswolds lean-to to the orchards of Normandy, the finest eaux de vie are less about alcohol than attention — to fruit, soil, weather and time

Being late is a waste of time and money — but I have a solution

Germany’s weekly retail shutdown is bad for the country’s economy and the atmosphere of its cities

Birmingham chef Aktar Islam brings serious confidence to Borough Market at his slick, generous new restaurant

Fallen Ukrainian fighters are being reburied hundreds of miles from where they died

US dairies are boosting whey production to meet surging protein demand. Now they have to sell the curds

A cynic would say such monikers are made up by professionals looking to hype markets — I think ‘The Mag 7’ is much more dangerous than that