She has talked of her desire to become a mother - and the Duchess of Cambridge shows she is a natural as she plays with a face-painted child on her visit to Canada... more
Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, is keeping a close eye on rival stock markets' urge to merge even as he pushes his own £4.2 billion deal with Canada's TMX Group forward... more
Revenge is best served cold, as Terry Smith hopes to demonstrate the when former Collins Stewart and Tullett Prebon director Michael Fallon is elected chairman of the Treasury Select Committee... more
Alex Bilodeau admits he is still struggling to come to terms with his meteoric rise to fame after he became the first Canadian to win Olympic gold on home soil... more
Financial scandal, the venality of the newly rich and famous, the shallow pursuit of hedonism: The Rake's Progress might almost have been written for today... more
GlaxoSmithKline announced it had started to dispatch its swine flu vaccine around the world and said it has received contracts for 440 million doses of its pandemic vaccine ... more
JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more
The View's latest has the swagger of those who already have a number one album tucked into their filthy jeans and Janet Mason's record has clever themes.... more
This extraordinary picture from the weekend's royal wedding graphically captures the changing face of both the monarchy and modern families everywhere.... more
Glenn Ford, one of the most enduring stars of the silver screen, has died at the age of 90. The actor, who appeared in more than 200 films in a career spanning five decades, died at his home.... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports