Mark Zuckerberg and his wife pledged $3 billion over the next decade to help banish or manage disease, pouring some of the Facebook founder's fortune into it.
Billionaire Warren Buffett is giving five charities more than $2.6 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock as part of his overall plan to give away his fortune gradually.
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...