Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “My feelings have been oriented by the compass as far back as I can remember,” wrote poet WH Auden in ...

East, unlike west, was celebrated by ancient cultures as symbolizing the beginning of life. It was also important in Judaism and Christianity, whose adherents directed their prayers eastward.

The compass of international relations is in constant motion, its needle swinging between North and South, East and West in ...

The four main points of the compass are north, east, south and west. ... If the scale is 1:50,000 it means that the map is 50,000 times smaller than the real world. For example, every 1 cm on the ...

This question touches on an important moral that should be addressed first - how do we orient our North, South, East, and West compass points in space. ... Just a map of the world turned "upsidedown" ...