Head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, said activity dropped in the second quarter. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/EPA Alistair Darling’s one-off bank bonus tax cost Goldman Sachs $600m (£395m), the Wall Street bank said today as it revealed that its wage and bonus bill reached $9.2bn in... 

Reuters Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson in happier times earlier this year. In yet another shocking rant caught on tape, embattled actor Mel Gibson tells ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva that he will burn down her house after demanding sex from her. In the tape obtained by RadarOnline.com, an incensed, out... 

Ben Fogle… sunny, deep and, er, adventurous. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen / Rex Features It’s a very revealing programme, With Great Pleasure (Tuesdays, Radio 4, 11.30am) – or maybe Ben Fogle is just a very open person. He certainly has an honest complexion. The adventurer launched... 

Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 classic Spartacus. Photograph: Cine Text / Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd. / Allstar “Oh, that’s what I want to do,” I remember thinking when I watched Spartacus for the first time. I must have been about 11 or 12 at the time, so I suspect... 

‘It blows my mind that Jimmy Page wanted to play with us’ … Aerosmith. Photograph: Andre Csillag / Rex Features/Andre Csillag/Rex Features Corinne Bailey Rae, singer There have been so many amazing moments in my career so far: coming off stage to find Prince had been in the audience,...