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SpaceX: how Elon Musk’s new rocket could transform the space racehttps://on.ft.com/3DyslVe 

IMF board backs Georgieva to continue as managing directorhttps://on.ft.com/3Ayrimj 

Evergrande crisis puts PwC role in spotlighthttps://on.ft.com/3iUpFcF 

South Korea’s ‘Bernie Sanders’ touts universal basic income ahead of pollshttps://on.ft.com/3lwtB59 

Latest news updates: UK ministers urge parents to encourage teenagers to get vaccinated against Covidhttps://on.ft.com/3As5OaV 

BHP, the world’s biggest mining company, faces a knife-edge vote on its climate transition action plan at this week’s annual meeting with some big shareholders debating whether to support a strategy they feel does not go far enoughhttps://on.ft.com/3FEtLQ7 

Moqtada al-Sadr claimed victory in Iraq’s parliamentary election, increasing his bloc’s tally of seats from the previous polls in 2018 when it also won most votes, and handing the warlord-turned-cleric more influence over government formationhttps://on.ft.com/3FBVQHH 

UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s controversial £250m 'trade yacht' is to be deemed to have a 'national security' role, in a move that would allow it to be built in a British shipyard without going out to international tenderhttps://on.ft.com/2X0IFys 

Southwest Airlines has blamed air traffic control and weather as widespread flight cancellations and delays stretched into a fourth dayhttps://on.ft.com/3mGcf57 

Iraqi security forces have captured the man once dubbed “Isis’s finance minister” in a cross-border operation, the Iraqi prime minister announcedhttps://on.ft.com/3mJoXAb 

Political support for a global agreement on methane emissions at the UN climate summit is building slowly, as another 25 countries joined the US and EU-led pledge to cut pollution from the potent greenhouse gashttps://on.ft.com/3lvUx4V 

Would America go to war over Taiwan? That question has seemed fairly abstract for decades, writes Gideon Rachman. Now it is increasingly urgenthttps://on.ft.com/3iQMMFa 

There are tentative signs the Delta surge in the US may be fizzling out with the number of new Covid-19 cases reported falling by 22% in the past two weeks and hospitalisations down by a fifthhttps://on.ft.com/3AyhpoC 

Some of BlackRock's biggest US bond ETFs bled while rival products attracted inflows. It is hard to be sure exactly why.https://on.ft.com/3FzM0G6 

Would you prefer to spread your core work hours over seven days, rather than between Monday and Friday?https://on.ft.com/2YCxqwu 

Gideon Rachman: Strategic ambiguity has kept the peace for decades. But a dangerous moment of clarity may be approachinghttps://on.ft.com/3DuxFJs