Labour leadership contender Ed Balls and his wife, Yvette Cooper. Photograph: Rex Features Ed Balls, one of the Labour leadership contenders, has suggested it may be “uncomfortable” for audiences to watch brothers David and Ed Miliband battling to succeed Gordon Brown as the party’s... 

The Duke Semans mansion, located on the corner of 82nd Street and 5th Avenue in New York, will not be a residence for Carlos Slim. Photograph: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News Mexican telecoms billionaire Carlos Slim, reputed to be the world’s richest man, has splashed out m (£28m) on an... 

A blogging website that was shut down suddenly last week for containing links to hit lists, bomb-making documents and Al Qaeda’s new magazine “Inspire” had a lengthy history of breaking the law, but its violations were limited to copyright issues, not terrorism. Upon learning from the... 

It was initially thought that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was only likely to live for another three months. Photograph: Reuters Should senators insist on questioning Scottish ministers over the release of the Lockerbie bomber? Yes, they’ve still got some explaining to do ... 

The New York headquarters of the Goldman Sachs investment bank. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA Goldman Sachs faces the threat of legal action from Royal Bank of Scotland, which lost $800m (£523m) on the complex mortgage security at the heart of a record-breaking fine by the US regulators. Even...