As the Arab world’s bloodiest conflict grinds on, Qatar has emerged as a driving force, pouring in tens of millions of dollars to arm the rebels. Yet it also stands accused of dividing them – and of positioning itself for even greater influence in the post-Assad era. FT investigation by Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith
Thirty years ago, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found an unidentified virus in a patient with Aids – work which won her a Nobel Prize. She talks to Andrew Jack about the continuing battle with the disease
Anna Chancellor, star of ‘The Hour’ and immortalised as Duckface in ‘Four Weddings’, guides Jeremy Taylor through the West Country landscapes of her childhood
People make promises on behalf of future selves they cannot know will fulfil them. Look at a promise as not so much a binding contract but an act of commitment and trust
Service, please
Remember when waiters did more than, well, wait? Tim Hayward on the joys of having a crêpe flambéd at your table…