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No peace, no quiet

Bond yields continue to push higher alongside tensions in the Middle East

The ECB will sit on the sidelines during France’s debt sell-off

That does not mean it can avoid making contingency plans to activate emergency measures

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights pioneer Navi Pillay

Prize given to South African human rights lawyer for her efforts to promote peace and international law

High earners are right to wail about childcare costs

Calls to remove the £100,000 earnings limit on childcare benefits show how broken our tax system really is

FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 814

Death-spiral finance: altcoin edition

Ever get the feeling you’ve been CHAD?

FT Weekend Quiz: Jack and the Beanstalk, Walter Hartright and a Bolshevik slogan

Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!

Ukraine strikes Russian tech giant’s data centres

Kyiv attacks facilities of Yandex, known as ‘Russia’s Google’, in retaliation for strikes on its digital infrastructure

Former prince Andrew makes £1.5mn payment after early surrender of Royal Lodge lease

Mountbatten-Windsor charged £1.8mn for damage to property in Windsor Great Park but was owed £302,000 in compensation for moving out early

From quantum science to Elif Shafak’s story of Flaubert’s women, Michael Lewis on Doge to German militarisation. Plus: Sherry Turkle’s warning on AI companions, Philip Hensher’s survey of the novel — and James Lovegrove’s pick of sci-fi

Computer scientist David Silver: ‘Where are we going without AI?’

The architect of Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology

Former Deutsche Bank star trader has rate-rigging conviction quashed

Christian Bittar had pleaded guilty in 2018 to manipulating the Euribor rate

Student protests rock Paris as 7,000 detained

Rioting high schoolers pile pressure on Emmanuel Macron’s government

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Mini Crossword Number 130

This Cursed Beautiful Land — Evan Gershkovich on being Putin’s human bargaining chip

The American journalist’s prison memoir provides a rare glimpse into a brutal and secretive system with encounters that are both moving and compelling

Word Circle Number 130

Germany Rearmed — a historic shift back to military power raises alarm

Liana Fix on the possible reawakening of Europe’s old demons as Germany bolsters its arms industry

Baselitz’s anti-heroic ‘Heroes’ burst into life at Thaddaeus Ropac

The late artist’s final planned exhibition reunites the exhilarating, devastating paintings of one of his greatest series

‘La dolce vita’ 2.0: Rome is luring homebuyers with a revamp

The Eternal City’s antiquity was its blessing and its curse: beautiful but tourist-clogged and stuck in the past. But with billions in investment, foreign residents are flocking and the new-builds to cater to them are rising fast. Can it compete with London and Milan?