March 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories

in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories

and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Headlines

- RedBird IMI favours Telegraph sale after Sunak moved to

block deal

- Shell shakes up climate targets as it plans to keep gas

business growing

- UK statisticians threaten strike action over

back-to-office mandate

- Munich prosecutor opens money laundering probe into Signa

Overview

- RedBird IMI is leaning towards a full sale of Telegraph

Media Group following the British government's decision to block

its Abu Dhabi-backed takeover of the newspaper.

- Shell has weakened some of its climate targets to

accommodate plans to keep growing its giant gas business, even

as it reaffirmed its long-term commitment to cut emissions to

net zero by 2050.

- Staff at the Britain's statistics agency are threatening

strike action after being ordered back to the office as part of

a wider ministerial clampdown on homeworking across the civil

service.

- Munich's state prosecutor is looking into allegations of

money laundering at the Signa Group, René Benko's collapsed

luxury property empire.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)