Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I recently sat down with the outgoing Irish climate minister, Eamon Ryan, in a quiet corner of the European ...

PARIS—In France, many people encounter their first acronym at birth in a CHU, the French initials for a university hospital center. The acronyms pile up in elementary school, where first through fifth ...

At first it was the scientists and engineers who cut words down to size, which made sense because no one could understand the language anyway. However, slowly but surely politicians started to use ...