The number of billionaires around the world is growing, rising by 15% to 2,754 people in 2017 from the previous year, according to data by market research firm Wealth-X.
Update (9:20am ET, May 18): Kensington Palace has confirmed that Prince Charles will walk his future daughter-in-law, Meghan Markle, down the aisle.
Money isn’t the only thing that motivates millennial workers. According to a new survey by Deloitte, the millennial generation cares about diversity, inclusion, and flexibility more than money when it comes to staying with a company for the long term.
The Walton family tops a list of the richest people in the world.
Michael Platt, the co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, is the richest hedge fund manager in Britain with a net worth of £3 billion ($4.1 billion), according to the Sunday Times.
Alex Loven is the richest young entrepreneur in Britain.
US delivery service UPS announced this week that it partnered with UK-based technology company Arrival to roll out a “pilot fleet” of 35 new electric trucks. But what has captured many people’s attention isn’t the new technology—it’s how cute the trucks look.
The best hiring managers spend time searching for ideal candidates, going through rigorous interview processes. But if the journey takes longer than a month, it’s highly likely that they’ll lose out on top candidates, according to independent research conducted by 3Gem, commissioned by recruitment firm Robert Half UK.
Paul McCartney is still the richest person in the music industry in Britain.
Appetite for high-end housing in one of Seoul’s richest districts, Gangnam, has pushed South Korea’s capital to the top of a benchmark global index for luxury property price growth.
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Karl Marx, one of the world’s most influential philosophers, was born 200 years ago on Saturday (May 5) in Trier, Germany. To commemorate the person whose ideology shaped entire nations with his Communist Manifesto, locals are throwing a birthday party—and China is picking up the tab.
When United Airlines accepted full responsibility for the death of a dog on one of its flights earlier this year, it prompted a major review of the US carrier’s policies for transporting animals. The company said this week it is working with the country’s oldest national humane animal organization, American Humane, to improve the well-being of pets that fly with the airline, and will resume transporting them as cargo from July 9—but it has also decided to ban 25 pet breeds from its aircraft.
While the #MeToo movement uncovered and corralled support for (mostly female) victims of systematic abuse, intimidation, harassment, and rape at the hands of some of Hollywood’s most powerful players, it also gave them a voice.
Kensington Palace announced via Twitter today (April 27) that the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge have named their third child Louis Arthur Charles. He’ll be known as His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge.
The White House confirmed that US president Donald Trump will visit Britain on July 13. But, far from the pomp and ceremony that we see from regular state visits, it’s believed that it will be a working trip that follows closely after his planned attendance of the NATO summit in Brussels.
When scientists performed an autopsy on a chunk of London’s huge fatberg, they found the monstrous lump contained 20 types of drugs. Perhaps more surprising was that it had a higher concentration of prohibited gym supplements than street drugs, such as cocaine and MDMA.
This post has been updated to further clarify the difference between two of the cited fatbergs found in London.
Britain’s capital is predominantly owned by just two aristocrats—the Duke of Westminster (paywall) and the Earl Cadogan. But in London’s richest neighborhood, Mayfair, extremely wealthy royalty from overseas are replacing UK aristocrats as landlords.
Britain’s longest-ever ruling monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, turns 92 today (April 21). Living through the terms of 21 UK prime ministers and 16 US presidents, she has reigned for 65 years as one constant in a world that has enormous change.
Led by one of the world’s most powerful millennials, Saudi Arabia is moving into an unprecedented era of social and economic change.
A London-based cyber-security firm with just 20 employees became the first overseas company to win a contract with the US Department of Homeland Security to help tackle border security.
During the night, the US, UK, and France unleashed 105 missiles on Syria, in what was the first coordinated Western strike action on the Damascus government.
The US and its allies, namely the UK, faced off with the Soviet Union for decades following the allied victory in World War II. History appears to be repeating itself.
