First Minister for Wales Carwyn Jones, right, in the cab of a refuse lorry with Brian Moylan at New Inn, near Pontypool. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/D Legakis Photography / Athena Picture Agency Bryan Moylan spent hours scrubbing, vacuuming and spraying his refuse truck in preparation for his VIP passenger. “But it was worth it to put [...]

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 eight-storey mansion on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in [...]

John Makinson: the consumer must be given what the consumer wants. Photograph: David Levene/for the Guardian Penguin this week celebrates its 75th year and is marking the anniversary by repackaging a series of seminal books from the 1960s to the 1980s. Although the company might afford itself a brief look backwards, it feels as though [...]

A protest by Bangladeshi garment workers, who are mostly women, in Dhaka yesterday. Millions have accepted an 80% increase in wages. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80% after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a government minister said. [...]