Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

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 1947. “To ...

The four main points on a compass are: north, east, south and west. A compass is used to work out direction. A four-point compass can give a rough direction whereas a sixteen-point compass is much ...

This is the Jeep that can’t go off-road. Well, that’s not completely true. The 2007 Jeep Compass is available with full-time all-wheel drive, and is capable of tackling the odd dirt road. The Compass ...