It was a cold November afternoon in Battery Park, even with the sun beating down, and it would have been colder if master builder Robert Moses had gotten his way, back in 1939, when he tried to build a new bridge connecting Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.

The SECRET behind the success of TECH BILLIONAIRES Zuckerberg, Jobs… WANT to know the secret behind the success of the billionaire CEOs of Silicon Valley? It's routine. Aside from the obvious talent they possess in their field, research suggests what …

Earlier this year, billionaire Dennis Tito — best known as the first "space tourist" who paid his way onto the International Space Station in 2001 — laid out his audacious plan for a manned fly-by of Mars. There was just one catch: the mission would …

As of July 2013, 115 billionaires have signed up, including some of the biggest entrepreneurs in the world, with pledges so far over a half-a-trillion dollars. Warren Buffet. Source: Supplied. In a new report on The Giving Pledge by CBS News , the …

The latest entries to this list included Jaypee Group–a conglomerate that has businesses in cement, power plants and built India's first Formula One racing track–real estate giant DLF DLF Ltd. owned by billionaire K.P. Singh, and Hindustan Construction …

Four members of Germany's Otto family, which controls Otto GmbH & Co KG, owner of the Crate & Barrel and bonprix retail chains, have surfaced as billionaires, based on a review of German regulatory filings. Benjamin Otto, 38, holds 12.5 percent of the …

New Delhi: At 53 years, China's billionaires are the youngest in the world, while the average age of India's super rich people is 63 years, a year older than the global average of 62, says a report.

Perhaps the most obvious billionaire owner is the one whose team is named after the company that generated his massive wealth. The New York Red Bulls, the league's sixth most valuable franchise at $114 million, are owned by and share a name with the …

In May, billionaire Victor Pinchuk took his fellow Ukrainian billionaires, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor Kolomoisky, to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales for allegedly swindling him out of the ownership and profits of the ferroalloy plant …