Blackstone chief executive Stephen Schwarzman is one of Wall Street’s most enthusiastic free market fans. Photograph: Mat Szwajkos/Getty Images The billionaire Blackstone private equity boss Stephen Schwarzman, who is among Wall Street’s most visceral proponents of the free market,... 

Cossiga meeting the press in Rome’s Quirinale Presidential Palace in 2006. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP Francesco Cossiga, who has died aged 82 of cardiovascular illness, was the president of Italy from 1985 to 1992. For the first five years of his presidency he behaved like his predecessors,... 

Nick Clegg was demanding cuts in private while decrying them in public during the election campaign. Photograph: Getty So, Mervyn King has shot down Nick Clegg’s tale that it was a private dressing down from him which forced the Liberal Democrats into the screeching, handbrake U-turn... 

Rio Tinto chief Tom Albanese is characteristically upbeat about the miner’s joint venture with Chinalco in the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images Tom Albanese, the chief executive of Rio Tinto, is nicknamed “Tigger” because of his...