Standard Chartered, UK government and special fund-raising events help direct donations from FT readers and supporters of Sightsavers to reach multi-million pound mark

The US democratic process is notoriously complicated, with its primaries and caucuses, its convention delegates and its electoral colleges. This is the FT’s guide to the process.

FT survey finds schools in the capital benefit from a larger choice of good teachers

EU Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Semeta told the FT, “The UK would lose a lot if other [EU] members decide to move ahead with a financial transactions tax. Because of its design, [Britain] will be subject to the tax, but at the same time, it will not receive any money from it.

Ed Miliband is on unusually assertive form this morning. His observation in the FT that ‘my speech to Labour’s annual conference was not — I think it is fair to say — universally well-received’ is not, I think, intended self-deprecatingly, but rather self-congratulatory, as though he were the only politician calling for a ‘responsible capitalism’ at the ti...

Something in today's FT for those of us who are Labour supporters and Unite trade union members to plan our response to. I can't quote it all as it's behind a pay wall, you'll need to buy the paper to read the whole article: "Leftwing union leader eyes private sector By Brian Groom and Jim Pickard The union movement’s future lies in spreading militancy to the private sector, says the leftwing ci...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will hold a preparatory bilateral meeting on 9 January in Berlin to discuss ahead of the upcoming EU summits at the end of the month. The FT reports that talks will include discussion for a ‘road map’ to Eurobonds after the European Parliament put forward such a proposal last week.

One year on from what remains, for many Liberal Democrats, the most traumatic decision yet taken by the coalition, the FT (via an editorial in the newspaper) has provided its assessment of the policy. Here’s what the newspaper says on the policy itself: Many academics and students continue to grumble about the move to charge

From Fukushima to the Arab spring, 2011 was a year of the unexpected. Will 2012 bring even greater surprises? FT writers look at what the year ahead may hold

FT analysis shows cities outperformed by southern counterparts with Hull the worst performing local authority