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Ciudad del Este’s deadly trade route
Officials have turned a blind eye to the goods ferried from Paraguay’s border town into Brazil, but many believe that drugs and arms smuggling is where the real money is
How New Labour succeeded with NHS policy
In the last decade, NHS waiting times were reduced from two years to 18 weeks. This achievement offers vital lessons for whichever party wins the next election. Plus click here for a web-only review of other New Labour policies that worked - and the ones that failed.
The inside story of the Cadbury takeover
Some investors say that if the British confectionery group had been better managed, its stock price would have been higher, making it too expensive for Kraft
The challengers to London’s black cabs
Though part of an extremely fragmented cottage industry, tech-savvy minicab company Addison Lee aims to be firmly on the radar as a parallel threat to its black taxi rivals
Lives haunted by crime in Johannesburg
Ilan Godfrey’s portraits show that in a city where the police are mistrusted and many work for private security, crime can be a source of pain as well as employment
US civilians battle to help Afghanistan
In Arghandab, more than 900 US civilians are working alongside troops to build a functioning local government from scratch. They have until May – when the Taliban return
Exclusive Claude Lévi-Strauss cartoon
Was structuralism, the big idea of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, more cult than science? The team behind the bestselling graphic novel Logicomix investigates
How England treats its gifted children
Nearly a million children in the country’s state education system are classified as ‘gifted and talented’. But do they receive enough support from the government and its mish-mash of policies?
Preventing violent extremism in Britain
Millions of pounds are being spent on projects aimed at diverting young Muslims from terrorism and improving community relations. It has, however, caused merry hell
10 innovations that will reshape business
FT writers predict the ideas – from cloud computing and smart meters to online shopping and financial instruments – that will change our lives in the next decade
