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Lunchtime market round-upAfter a volatile morning, European stock markets are still in the red – but off their earlier lows – after steep losses in Asia-Pacific…

Sylvia Plath’s poem Mushrooms is a sinister paean to the natural world. Her observations on fungi are freighted with foreboding, noting how “very / Whitely, discreetly,…

An analysis found that NSF grant funding remained about level in the recently ended fiscal year. The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health doled…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Lloyds Banking Group’s profits tumbled almost 40 per…

Hundreds of people plunged into the Chicago River’s chilly waters on Sunday as part of the first organized swim in the river for nearly 100 years,…