London flat ‘sells for £140m’ to become the city’s most valuable property

One Hyde Park penthouse believed to be taken by overseas buyer, ‘injecting new vitality’ into capital’s super-prime market

Bill Gates urges China’s wealthiest to give to charity

Businessman makes plea in People’s Daily for country to improve bad philanthropic record by investing in the poor

British Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room

State-of-the-art facility will store more than three centuries of newspapers and magazines dating back to the English civil war

Mario Testino returns home to focus on the beauty of Peru

The man made famous for his portraits of supermodels discusses why he has been drawn back to his hometown Lima

China hopes to take rare animals off the menu with tough jail sentences

People who knowing eat products made from 420 species classified as endangered face of up to 10 years or more in prison