Asia has more billionaires than any other continent, a survey by China-based Hurun Report showed on Thursday, overtaking North America for the first time.
Carlos Slim Helu remained the world's richest person, but Asia is where today's big money is flowing, Forbes magazine said in its 2011 list of the world's billionaires.
Slim, who is almost unknown to the...
The New York Post picks up a Guardian report that embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be the richest man in the world.
Worth about $70 billion, the Post says most of his money is...
Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim may be the world's richest man but he limits his monthly salary to $24,000 and travels in a Suburban, according to his biography.
Mr Slim, 70, knocked Bill Gates form the...
The world's new richest man, Mexican Carlos Slim, and a fresh crop of billionaires in Asia helped lead a comeback for the wealthiest few on the planet in 2010, Forbes magazine said Wednesday.
The publication's...
The top 10 richest people in the world have a combined worth of 342 billion dollars in 2010, up from 254 billion a year ago.
Below are the 20 wealthiest in 2010, as reported by Forbes...
Bill Gates is now only the third richest man with a net worth of $58 billion. Mexican telecom mogul, Carlos Slim Helú, trumps Gates by $2 billion.
Had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for...