Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Latin music has never been harder to categorize, and in 2025, a treasure trove of traditional rhythms came to the pop-culture forefront, hybridized with cutting-edge production from the realms of ...

It's Christmas time and there's a genuine reason to feel afraid. For the next few weeks, it'll be impossible to escape Wham and their story of giving people their internal organs; Noddy Holder's ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Although no one won the $841.4 million Powerball jackpot in the latest drawing on Saturday, Dec. 6, many players in Ohio took home a bit more cash. The winning numbers for Powerball ...

A selection of songs to build a great holiday soundtrack, from the great holiday films and TV episodes that are out there. Look, friends. There are now endlessly scrollable, curated Christmas ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Although nobody won the $50 million Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, Dec. 5, there were many other prizes won throughout Ohio. The winning Mega Millions numbers from Friday's drawing ...

With just days to go until this year’s Christmas number one is announced, it looks like Wham!’s hit Last Christmas may well have to settle for this year’s festive silver medal. In both 2023 and 2024, ...

The FA Cup third round draw is coming up today as fans across the country gear up for what remains one of the annual highlights on the English football calendar. Despite many attempting to continually ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

It's the most special (special) season yet on the chart for the festive favorite. By Gary Trust Wham!’s “Last Christmas” is the No. 1 song in the world, snowballing three places to the top of the ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...