FT editors pick their stories of the year

From China to Syria to the eurozone, 2015 has been a turbulent and dramatic year. Here is a selection of the FT’s best journalism, handpicked by our editors.

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Ben Hall, world news editor, picks:

• Isis Inc: how oil fuels jihadi terrorists by Erika Solomon, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones
• Why China’s ‘migrant miracle’ is ending by Gabriel Wildau
• The Greek PM’s warning to Angela Merkel: FT exclusive by Peter Spiegel
• In case you missed it (ICYMI): The sea women of South Korea by Simon Mundy

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Michael Stott, UK news editor, picks:

• Mark Carney: his report card so far by Chris Giles and Caroline Binham
• This Disunited Kingdom by Chris Giles and Sarah O'Connor
• Austerity: see how you’re affected, with the FT “cuts checker”
• ICYMI: Why the Queen beats any politician by Matthew Engel

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Frederick Studemann, comment editor, picks:

• A refugee crisis Europe can’t escape by Martin Wolf
• The sharing economy is now Wall Street’s playground by Gillian Tett
• Jeremy Corbyn rose because the stakes are low by Janan Ganesh
• ICYMI: Einstein’s genius shakes the cosmic jelly by Anjana Ahuja

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Brooke Masters, companies editor, picks:

• Did VW culture cause the scandal? by Richard Milne
• Banking’s jobs abyss by FT reporters
• Democratising finance: how tech improves access by Patrick Jenkins and Tom Braithwaite
• ICYMI: The brew prince by John Paul Rathbone and Andres Schipani

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Christopher Grimes, analysis editor, picks:

• China's great game by Charles Clover and Lucy Hornby
• The big drop: Riyadh’s oil gamble by Anjli Raval
• Paris attacks: Notes from a wounded city by Simon Kuper
• ICYMI: The fresh food revolution by Gary Silverman

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Michael MacKenzie, markets editor, picks:

• When interest rates rise: a one-stop guide to what happens next
• QE with Chinese characteristics by Gabriel Wildau
• The rise of the index: an essential series for investors and markets
• ICYMI:  Why traders flock to S&P 500 by Nicole Bullock and Eric Platt

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Lucy Tuck, life and arts editor, picks:

• Germany and Greece: a twisted love affair by Peter Aspden
• Richard Desmond has lunch with the FT by Henry Mance
• “Beatific and slightly nasty”: Lucy Kellaway meets Jonathan Franzen
• ICYMI: The twilight world of “zombie art” by John Sunyer

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Seb Morton-Clark, acting global head, FT Video, picks:

• Big Game, Big Money: Inside the illegal wildlife trade
• Migrant crisis: Dying to reach Europe 
• Lucy Kellaway's Office Space: Lego’s new London HQ
• ICYMI:  China and the illegal rosewood carve-up

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Christine Spolar, investigations editor, picks:

• Hanergy: a strange trading story by Miles Johnson and Gavin Jackson
• Cyber insecurity: vital US agencies at risk by Kara Scannell and Gina Chon
• North Korea: The secrets of Office 39 by Tom Burgis
• ICYMI: Standard Chartered: the Iranian link by FT reporters

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Richard Waters, US West Coast editor, picks:

• Unicorns: the end of start-ups-on-steroids by Leslie Hook
• Going dark: encryption and terror by Hannah Kuchler and Richard Waters
• Uber takes on Europe by FT reporters
• ICYMI: Wearables at Work: the new surveillance by Sarah O'Connor and Robin Kwong

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Adam Jones, Business Life editor, picks:

• The classic “I Quit” note by Lucy Kellaway
• The hard-nosed kings of beer by Andrew Hill and Scheherazade Daneshkhu
• The other Square Mile — the City at work: photostory by Charlie Bibby and Emma Jacobs
• ICYMI: How smart are smart cups? 

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Claer Barrett, personal finance editor, picks:

• Volatile markets: Questions every investor needs to ask
• Are you ready for a rate rise? by Lucy Warwick-Ching
• Who has their eye on your pension? by Josephine Cumbo
• ICYMI: Why we have to kill the tooth fairy by Claer Barrett

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Clive Cookson, science editor, picks:

• Meet Anne Wojcicki, queen of home DNA testing by Andrew Ward
• Brain power: fresh hope for an Alzheimer’s cure by Andrew Ward and David Crow
• Pluto and Charon: Nasa’s first detailed images by Clive Cookson
• ICYMI: Twelve ways the world could end by Clive Cookson

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Jane Owen, House and Home editor, picks:

• Tang v Kellaway's interior design battle by Lucy Kellaway and David Tang
• Happy cities are boring by John Kay
• The world's riskiest, and potentially most profitable, property buys by Gideon Rachman
• ICYMI: Robert Kime's pleasure domes of interior design by Ben Pentreath

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Pilita Clark, environment correspondent, picks:

• China's big soil pollution clean-up by Lucy Hornby
• Carbon capture: miracle machine or white elephant? by Pilita Clark
• Oil crash: how it changed the world by Ed Crooks
• ICYMI: Ganges — holy deadly river by Victor Mallet

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Alec Russell, head of news, picks:

• Lunch with Sepp Blatter by Malcolm Moore
• Inside Atlético Madrid: can the club go global? by Simon Kuper
• Novak Djokovic invites Peter Aspden aboard his private jet
• ICYMI: Michelle Payne: Jamie Smyth meets the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup