Netflix leans on $59bn bank loan to fund Warner Bros takeover
Wells Fargo leads one of the largest financings of its kind as it looks to muscle in on investment banking rivals
Frank Gehry, architect, 1929-2025
The globetrotting ‘starchitect’ created some of the world’s best-known buildings, from the Bilbao Guggenheim to LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall
Letter: UK asylum reforms lack a credible development commitment
From Tony Vaughan, Labour MP for Folkestone, Human Rights KC, House of Commons, London SW1, UK
Letter: Mick’s way with words
From Carmine Neil DeCrescenzo, Brick, NJ, US
Letter: That takes the biscuit
From Michael Contaldo, Wellington, New Zealand
Letter: In the Holy Land, religion poisons search for peace
From James Rodgers, Associate Professor (Reader) in International Journalism, City St George’s, University of London; BBC correspondent in Gaza, 2002-04
Letter: AI versus art connoisseur — there’s really no contest
From Yasuyuki Ichikawa, Nagoya, Japan
Letter: A room with two views
From William Smalley, Architect, London WC1, UK
Letter: In Ireland they consider August the start of autumn
From PG Cowap, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
Letter: Where Engels fears to tread
From Ivor Morgan, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
Letter: Why the Democrats have a big hill to climb
From James A Lewis, Alexandria, VA, US
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How Netflix stole Warner Bros from David Ellison
Old-guard Hollywood underestimated streaming pioneer that has upended the industry over two decades
Germany and EU hold ‘constructive’ talks with Belgium on Russian assets
Merz jetted to Brussels for dinner with Belgian premier on Friday to try to win approval for a reparations loan for Kyiv
Crypto treasury underwriter Clear Street plans to list in new year
Firm close to Trump family’s media group has emerged as a beneficiary of digital asset craze sweeping global markets
US watchdogs drop post-crisis safeguard on risky lending
Regulators remove critical guidelines for leveraged loans after complaints from Wall Street
Frank Gehry, architect, dies aged 96
Modern master whose sinuous, billowing forms for the Guggenheim in Bilbao gave birth to the ‘Bilbao Effect’
Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship
Justices will weigh interpretation of US Constitution’s guarantees to ‘all persons’ born in the country
Meta buys AI pendant start-up Limitless to expand hardware push
Deal indicates Zuckerberg is exploring other types of artificial intelligence-powered devices beyond smart glasses
Jair Bolsonaro backs son Flávio to lead Brazil’s rightwing movement
Markets fall on jailed ex-president’s decision ahead of possible election showdown against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Reform UK strips council leader of membership over undisclosed X account
Party expels Ian Cooper in Staffordshire after historic racist social media posts emerge
Transcript: Deals, donations and damage limitation
George Parker talks to Miranda Green, Jim Pickard and Robert Shrimsley
Clarification: Rousham Conservation Area
A planning consultant’s report commissioned by supporters of Rousham House questions the developers’ statement that proposed new houses nearby would cause “less than substantial” harm to Rousham Conservation Area. An article in House & Home on November 29 suggested it was the consultant’s report its