Vanessa Kortekaas has Thursday’s top stories from around the world, including Donald Trump selecting a climate sceptic to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Italy seeking more time for a bank bailout and China acknowledging problems with data.

Vanessa Kortekaas has Wednesday’s top stories from around the world, including a sterling flash crash investigation focusing on a Citi trader, Australian GDP contracts and an exiled opposition leader vowing to return to Democratic Republic of Congo.

Josh de la Mare has Tuesday’s top stories from around the world, including Italian bank Monte dei Paschi preparing for bailout, tech companies fighting extremism and Manuel Valls seeking a French presidential nomination.

Daniel Garrahan has Monday’s top stories from around the world, with Italy’s president to resign after a referendum loss, Austrians rejecting far-right populism and Trump's tweets against China.

Daniel Garrahan has Friday’s top stories from around the world, including French president François Hollande abandoning re-election plans, and a by-election rebuke for the UK’s Conservative party.

Vanessa Kortekaas has Thursday’s top stories from around the world, with Syrian rebels in secret talks with Russia, US energy groups benefiting from Opec cuts and a climate-change boost for UK wine producers.

Seb Morton-Clark has Wednesday’s top stories from around the world, with Royal Bank of Scotland failing bank stress tests, Donald Trump set to appoint Steven Mnuchin and Castro eulogised in Havana.

Seb Morton Clark has Tuesday’s top stories from around the world, including South Korea’s president offers to step down, Zuma survives no-confidence vote and the Great Barrier Reef suffers massive coral loss.

The FT's Vanessa Kortekaas highlights the top stories on Monday, including François Fillon winning France’s

centre-right presidential nomination and officials in Italy warning about banks at risk of failing.

The FT's Vanessa Kortekaas provides a briefing of the top stories on Friday, including a growing backlash against UK prime minister Theresa May's plans to curb executive pay and moves to contain the nuclear disaster site at Chernobyl.