"The matriarch of one of Hong Kong's richest corporate dynasties sat down with the city's most notorious crime bosses and negotiated the payment of a HK$600 million ransom for the release of her eldest son, The...
" With most homeowners worried about the plunging price of their property, there's always the exception that proves the rule. After being sold last year for £32million, the biggest private house in London bar...
They are the world's richest brothers with a combined wealth of $85bn - and they are fighting again. Two years ago, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, who control India's Reliance group of industries, accused each other...
The Richest Man In The Valley
A rich landowner named Carl often rode around his vast estate so he could congratulate himself on his great wealth.One day while riding around his estate on his favorite horse, he saw...
"The hearing into the 4.2 billion US dollar fortune of Nina Wang, who died aged 69 last year, leaving her money to an unknown feng shui master, is due to begin on February 16, 2008.At a hearing Wednesday, a High Court judge ruled that a further assessment could be made in...
His tons of money didn't help Aditya Mittal in buying a house of his choice. Aditya Mittal, son of world's richest Indian Lakshmi Mittal had made a hefty bid to acquire a house on a exclusive London street. "Aditya Mittal has been rebuffed after he made an offer of £200...
"Warren Buffett took advantage of the credit crunch yesterday as Mars announcedan agreed $23 billion (£11.5 billion) takeover of Wrigley in a deal that theworld’s richest man helped to finance in return for a cut-price stake in thechewing gum group.Mr Buffett’s Berkshire...
" Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout -- a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.It's the survival of the richest, and the poorest be...
Last spring's cover of New York Magazine featuring Steve Jobs was
largely unremarkable, yet another glossy gusher about Apple and its
founder. But beneath the trippy technicolor close-up of the face that
launched...
Meet the world's youngest billionaire: 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg launched the social-networking site from his Harvard dorm room in 2004, . Now it's worth a whopping $1.5 billion,...
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The rich are actually getting richer. Dramatically so. And it's interesting to note that Russia, India, and China have jumped into the elite inner circle of global billionaires. Perhaps the decline of the American...
The Material Girl does it again, raking in more than $70 million in tour earnings last year. I wonder what would happen if Streistand, Dion, and Madonna ever went on tour together? That would be one wildly...
"Manchester United is to unveil a record gross turnover of 245 million pounds (328 million euros, 483 million dollars), a report said Monday, establishing it as one of the world's richest football clubs.The English Premier League champions will on Friday show a 21 percent...
"Speaking to the press after performing Friday prayers here on Friday, Kalla said, "I don`t want to promote a dichotomy between native and non-native Indonesians, but it is for the first time in history that an...
I have no words for this. Pure disregard for nature, lives...terrible.
"Congo arrests after toxic dumping
Miners examine find of copper stones
Katanga has one of the world's richest belts of copper and cobalt
Six people have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo...