NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

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We did a partial climb of Ben Nevis today and were rewarded with stunning views of the valley below. Once again the light was incredible.

NEW: Saudi is holding internal discussions about having China or South Korea hold the 2029 Asian Winter Games as it struggles to deliver its desert defying ski resort in Neom. on.ft.com/45qlxtK

Delays to Saudi Arabia’s snow mountain put 2029 Asian Winter Games at risk

[FREE TO READ] Kingdom eyes alternative countries to host event after falling behind on construction of desert ski resort

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NEW: Ski resort in the Saudi mountains? This animation shows how the huge Trojena project which is set to host the Asian winter games in 2029 is falling behind schedule Great reporting from @alisonkilling.bsky.social Andrew England Joe Leahy and Ahmed Al Omran www.ft.com/content/6dfc... #dataviz

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army. Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police. ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army

Weapons smuggled from Florida are empowering the country’s militias and enabling them to challenge a fragile government

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New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Inside US’s booming immigration detention industry where increasing levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives and detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

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NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’

[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

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New: Inside Gaza’s 'death traps'. A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. First-hand testimony, satellite imagery and verified video shed light on the dangerous journey from which many never return. on.ft.com/4lKG6Go

NEW: Will Iran start a new tanker war? Data from Global Maritime Traffic highlights how much of a chokepoint the Strait of Hormuz is for tankers Read Chloe Cornish and JP Rathbone's latest @financialtimes.com Military Briefing www.ft.com/content/f452... #dataviz

GPS has become critical infrastructure with both military and civil applications. What happens when it's a casualty of war? @claradoodle.bsky.social, Aditi Bhandari and I took a visual look at the rising anxieties for the shipping industry in the Straight of Hormuz:

Visual analysis: GPS interference raises risk of accidents in Strait of Hormuz

Collision between two oil tankers raises anxieties in the region amid conflict between Israel and Iran

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Another excellent animation by @nikkei.com's @gakuito.bsky.social, this time showing Iran's Fordow nuclear enrichment facility which is buried 500m under a mountain. Read John Paul Rathbone and Charles Clover's excellent article www.ft.com/content/46c6... #dataviz

Multiple Israeli airstrikes have targeted Tehran’s top military commanders, nuclear sites and bases across the country. Verified footage, photos and official statements from Israel and Iran confirm some of the key locations that have been hit. on.ft.com/4jQdz0O

Israel’s strikes on Iran in videos and maps

[FREE TO READ] Multiple air strikes targeted Tehran’s top military commanders, nuclear sites and bases across the country

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Vast organised crime networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico's president. Here's how https://on.ft.com/4e1A9Cv

🔥 Our forests are burning, our oceans are dying, but at least solar energy is still on the rise! Dive into each topic and many more with the latest Data Vis Dispatch. 📊 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

NEW: Petrol cars are on the way out. Are you ready to go electric? By 2030 the UK government wants 80% of new cars to be EVs. In our latest visual story, we built the perfect EV town and set out the changes needed to accelerate the transition ig.ft.com/uk-electric-...

GIS nerds with a penchant for UK maps might appreciate Sir George Airy photobombing this Ian Bott illustration of the Airy Transit Circle. Check out Ian's amazing illustrated guide to London's Royal Observatory at Greenwich just in time for the clocks going forward (gift link: on.ft.com/4iVA2u1)

Want to know how I made the Arctic sea ice animation? You can now the read the ‘How we made it’ section of our Climate Graphic: Explained newsletter on FT.com www.ft.com/content/6d26... #dataviz

Brilliant, yet painful job by the @data.ft.com team to put this (in)humanitarian crisis into perspective. What Gazans had as land per person before the war. And what Gazans might end up with having. #gaza #dataviz

Patient data could power the NHS. Much of it is still stuck on paper 📊 https://www.ft.com/content/63a99def-87ae-4c66-bf21-b80029677612

Patient data could power the NHS. Much of it is still stuck on paper

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

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Excellent work by our talented colleague @gakuito.bsky.social‬ from @nikkei.com on secondment with our team. The animation shows smoke from the Candian wildfires crossing the Atlantic to Europe. Read @attractamooney.bsky.social's article on 'zombie fires' www.ft.com/content/f87c... #dataviz