The Glam

Neighbours of proposed Chinese ‘mega’ embassy seek judicial review

Residents of properties with Beijing-owned freehold set out legal arguments

FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 779

How a long-standing pledge to protect the Amazon began to fall apart

A pact by soy traders in Brazil to preserve the rainforest is under a co-ordinated assault

FT Weekend Quiz: Burkina Faso, Sheffield and Glen Matlock

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

FT Weekend Quiz solutions

After the fall: San Francisco is on the upswing

After a pandemic-era slump, AI-linked wealth is fuelling a surge in property values. But can new housing and zoning reforms steady the boom and bust cycle?

Noël Coward’s The Rat Trap is more than just a teenage curio

Written when the playwright was 18, this exploration of the strictures of marriage gets an astute revival at London’s Park Theatre

Ørsted’s US projects back on track after court lifts Trump-imposed suspension

Shares in world’s largest offshore wind developer climb after it reports what analysts deemed a ‘solid set of results’

Tom Broughton: ‘I steal my ideas — and my homes — from 1930s modernism’

Just as he reimagined the model for buying eyewear, the Cubitts founder had a new vision for a seaside flat in the modernist Marine Court building

US and Iran in Oman for talks over nuclear programme

Crunch negotiations come as Trump has been weighing military options against Tehran

FirstFT: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s social Ponzi scheme

Also in today’s newsletter: Big Tech’s ‘breathtaking’ spending spree and how climate change is leading to a reappraisal of the Winter Olympics

Tank maker KNDS dismisses investment interest from rival Rheinmetall

Franco-German group is preparing for a potential €20bn IPO later this year

Russian military intelligence official shot in Moscow

Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev taken to hospital after unknown assailant opens fire in residential building

Starmer government prepares to hand over Mandelson files for scrutiny

Cache of potentially embarrassing documents will be examined by committee investigating former minister’s appointment as US ambassador

Do I need to cut back on Deliveroo?

If you are asking, you already know the answer

19 buys even Sleeping Beauty would awake for

Everything you need for happily ever after

Bezos gutted the Washington Post. Can he revive it?

Billionaire hopes culling hundreds of journalists will stem heavy losses and refocus the struggling newspaper

Binary Puzzle Number 95

EU warns TikTok over addictive feeds and risks to children

Regulators say design choices that hook users could breach landmark digital rules

Bitcoin investor’s company helped draft law to enable libertarian Caribbean development

Local opponents criticise legislation that will facilitate ‘networked state’ community and hand executive powers to developer