Norway's oil fund is taking legal action against Volkswagen over the German carmaker's emissions testing scandal. It is a further sign that the fund is flexing its muscles as an active investor, coming weeks after it said it would start cracking down on executive pay levels. Matthew Vincent discusses the growing influence of the world's largest sovereign wealth investor with Richard Milne, the FT's Nordic and Baltics correspondent.

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Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has shaken up expectations about the world's biggest oil exporter with his ambitious plans to wean the kingdom off its dependence on hydrocarbons. Ben Hall talks to the FT's oil correspondent Anjli Raval and Gulf correspondent Simeon Kerr about the proposed reforms.

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The Facebook-owned messaging app has been blocked and unblocked several times in recent months in Latin America's biggest economy. The company was not pleased and nor were its customers. Ravi Mattu asks the FT's Samantha Pearson in São Paulo and Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco what's behind the disruption.

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The Philippines has elected a political outsider as president, a man with no experience of national level politics and who has said little about his plans for the economy. John Murray Brown asks the FT's Avantika Chilkoti, who covered the election campaign in Manila, what we know about the president elect.

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Shares in Lending Club plunged on Monday when the company announced that chairman and chief executive Renaud Laplanche would step down amid allegations of a lapse in business practices. The FT's Ben McLannahan and Alistair Gray discuss the potential ripple effects for the industry. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Long known as the sick man of Asia, the Philippines has been transformed over the past six years under President Benigno Aquino. Growth has accelerated and investment has poured in but, with elections on Monday, Filipinos are demanding change. The FT's Avantika Chilkoti reports.

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Creative and freelance positions are the fastest growing sector of the white collar economy in the US and many of these workers choose to share a space with others, rather than work in isolation. Richard Greenwald has studied this phenomenon over the past decade and he shares his insights with the FT's Emma Jacobs.

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What kinds of things will robots do in future and what jobs will be left for the humans? The FT's Maija Palmer puts the question to three London-based roboticistsFor more articles, videos and podcasts on living with robots, go to the FT's special series at www.ft.com/robot-week

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How will robots and advanced computer technology affect the role of managers in the workplace? Andrew Hill, the FT's management editor, puts the question to Julia Kirby, co-author of 'Only Humans Need Apply', a book on the rise of automation, and Hamid Mughal, director of global manufacturing for Rolls-Royce, the engineering group.

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The UK financial watchdog has found “systemic” failings in relation to financial crime at Deutsche Bank after a review of its UK unit last year. Patrick Jenkins, the FT's financial editor, discusses the findings and how shareholders have reacted with James Shotter, the FT's financial correspondent in Frankfurt. Music by Kevin MacLeod

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