Parsons and his wife, Renee, are the first super wealthy Arizonans to join the Giving Pledge, a national program started by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett encouraging billionaires to donate 50 percent of their wealth to charities. Bob …

Critics of the race say it's a prohibitively expensive, out-of-touch event solely for billionaires. Although competitive sailing is no doubt a sport for the very rich, this year's race was even more so, with fewer teams able to find the $100 million …

Whether residential or commercial, large-scale new developments or Grade-II bricks and mortar, billionaires are raising their asset allocation to real estate – especially in safe haven cities like London and New York. According to figures from ultra …

A newspaper owned by Billionaire Viktor Pinchuk gave journalists a makeshift office to cover protesters trying to topple President Viktor Yanukovych. Petro Poroshenko, Yanukovych's ex-economy minister and the head of Ukraine's largest chocolate maker, …

Miles Prower, owner of the world's largest money-laundering chain, is among the characters in “This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me): Billionaires in the Wild.” Prower re-creates the bloody, wholesale slaughter of bison herds in the Western …

In 2013, the wealth of the world's billionaires reached a record high – helped by 200 newcomers like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The 2013 Forbes Billionaires List names 1,426 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $5.4 trillion, up a …

Billionaire Jacqueline Badger Mars, the co-owner of the Mars Inc. candy company, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of reckless driving in connection with a northern Virginia crash that killed an 86-year-old woman. Mars, 74, was fined $2,500 and her …

Wang Jing, the Chinese billionaire behind a $40 billion plan to cut a canal through Nicaragua, wants to invest $10 billion in a deepwater port in Ukraine. Wang will team up with Ukrainian partner Kievgidroinvest LLC to work on a port and economic …

But a proposed landmark law change aimed at enabling Queensland indigenous people to own their own homes for the first time has Yarrabah Mayor Errol Neal fearful his community will become a target for billionaire developers. "After a pretty lengthy …