The City skyline – banks are believed to have set aside £5bn to pay staff bonuses, despite calls for pay restraints. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images British banks with big City operations have amassed pay and bonus pools of more than £5bn in the first six months of the year,... 

A passenger wearing a Bill Clinton mask is paraded through the streets of Rhinebeck as the town prepares for the wedding of Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky. Photograph: David Goldman/Getty Images Watched by her parents and VIPs from US politics and showbusiness, Chelsea Clinton married her... 

The Jolly Boys: (from left) Joseph ‘Powda’ Bennett, 73; Albert Minott, 72; Derrick ‘Johnny’ Henry, 71; Allan Swymmer, 82, and Egbert Watson, 84. Photograph: William Richards A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I’m in Kingston inside a windowless room... 

Magnetic Man. PICK OF THE WEEK Magnetic Man Feat Angela Hunte I Need Air (Columbia) Let’s hear it for people with vision and ambition and, well, balls. There’s a brilliant video of Magnetic Man (dubstep overlords Skream, Benga and Artwork) on YouTube playing this live. The crowd... 

Kanye West … ‘I try to compete against the past’. Photograph: Charles Sykes/Rex Features Kanye West’s comeback media blitz continues apace, with the rapper announcing an album that aspires to the standard of James Cameron’s Avatar. West staged an impromptu video...