<strong>Number of billionaires:</strong> 22 <strong>Total Population:</strong> 33,739,900 <strong>Notable Billionaires Include:</strong> David Thompson (Chairman of Thompson Reuters), Jeffrey Skoll (ex-eBay President) and Guy Laliberté (CEO of …

LONDON, July 25, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest football club owner, according to a new list that include investors and features teams from 11 countries, suggesting the worldwide appeal of sports …

Thanks to Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' backing, Blue Origin is one of the country's most financially stable rocket ventures, but it has also had one of the lowest profiles—until now. Now the company, based in an industrial area south of Seattle …

In particular, the dotcom billionaires' space companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX, are bidding for Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A — site of NASA's first and last space shuttle blast-off. Each company's plan for 39A is to launch both …

Billionaires, movie stars, snakes and curses all figure in a scandal swirling around a Chinese spiritual adviser after he allegedly threatened a reporter who questioned his powers with death. Wang Lin, 61, a self-proclaimed master of Qigong, a …

Just when India's biggest stimulus package in a decade was close to paying off, a cash crunch engineered by the central bank to shore up the rupee has pushed borrowing costs for leading companies back above 10 percent. Billionaire Anil Ambani's …

Ashok Leyland controlled by the billionaire Hinduja brothers sold Rs430 crore of investments last year, he said. “We have created enterprises in the recent past which have blossomed into profit making entities,” said Sridharan in an interview in an …

The billionaire himself rarely talks to the press about his rocket venture, leaving that to Meyerson and other executives. But Bezos' commitment to enabling "human access to space at a dramatically lower cost and increased reliability" is as strong …

Amid a treasure trove of gems, my favourite was Ron Walker's letter to James Packer complaining about the billionaire getting him in a head-lock as he was about to greet the Queen at the opening ceremony of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in 2006.