Marco Rubio had been called “Little Marco” and “a choke artist” by his 2016 Republican primary rival Donald Trump, but on a debate stage in Houston the Florida Senator finally hit back. Trump was a huckster who would be “selling watches in Manhattan” if he hadn’t inherited a real estate fortune, Rubio charged. Less than…
OG Maco Roger Kisby/Getty Images Rapper OG Maco has died. He was 32. “With heavy hearts, we share the heartbreaking news of the passing of our beloved ben, known to the world as OG Maco,” the musician’s family wrote in a Friday, December 27, Instagram statement on his official page. “His life was a testament…
Reuters A “chopsticks” rocket catch by Elon Musk’s SpaceX was among the highlights of 2024 A total solar eclipse seen by millions, a lost jungle city discovered by accident and hope for the almost extinct northern white rhino – science has given us a lot to get excited about this year. One of the biggest…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland aims to complete a border wall and seal off its border with Belarus by next summer, in order to stop an influx of migrants Warsaw describes as Russia’s hybrid war. The additional infrastructure works…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce XNY/Star Max/GC Images Fresh off Travis Kelce’s Christmas Day football victory, he reunited with girlfriend Taylor Swift in the Big Apple. Swift and Kelce, both 35, were spotted in social media footage heading to dinner in New York City on Friday, December 27, coordinating in tan outfits. Swift shimmered in…
Getty Images Payal Kapadia’s (third from right) All We Imagine As Light won the Cannes Film Festival’s second-highest honour this year In 2024, as Bollywood struggled to find its footing, smaller films by Indian women that told nuanced stories made headlines in the country and across the world. In May, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s All…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mexico is sitting on more than half a billion litres of tequila in inventory, almost as much as its annual production, as the fast-growing industry reckons with slowing demand and the prospect of tariffs on…
Candice Miller Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Hamptons Magazine Influencer Candice Miller is reportedly in debt after her husband Brandon Miller’s death earlier this year. Candice, 42, recently filed court papers obtained by The New York Times on Friday, December 27, claiming that Brandon had been $33.6 million in debt when he died in July. According…
BBC Nearly half the world’s population – 3.6 billion people – had major elections in 2024, but it was also a year that saw the slowest rate of growth in female representation for 20 years. Twenty-seven new parliaments now have fewer women than they did before the elections – countries such as the US, Portugal,…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Chapel Down announced in October that it had cancelled its plans for a sale, disappointment rippled through the English wine industry. Optimism about the sector’s prospects bubbled over last year following a bumper harvest…
