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The 57-year-old Bill Gates recaptures the title from Mexican investor Carlos Slim | Crayton Harrison It is the first time Bill Gates has held the mantle since 2007. His fortune is valued at $72.7 billion, up 16% year-to-date. Photo: AFP Also Read ...

Philip Harrison, Meridian Private Client, Jeremy Syree and Bill Ballard, Ballard Dale Syree Watson LLP Partners and employees at Droitwich-based accountancy practice Ballard Dale Syree Watson LLP are celebrating as they have secured the title ...

The uncertain destiny of the self-proclaimed Superman can be broken down into 10 simple realities You know where this is headed. Unless Patrick Beverley comes flying out of the stands to take out LeBron James or Tony Parker, we're getting a ...

Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill Hader has met both Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber on the hit comedy show, but his allegiances lie far more with Timberlake. Hader discussed the two with Howard Stern earlier this week and some of ...

When Jeanne Harrison, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker's Capitol Hill office in Washington, D.C., takes clients shopping for a home, her preference is to do the tour using two wheels, not four. Real estate agents usually "drive fancy cars," ...

The tanks of the Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria after last year's derecho. Owner Bill Butcher is shown with his son Key, 8, as the brewers salvaged beer after the company lost power in the storm. (Matt McClain The Washington Post) Craft ...

As youve probably noticed, congressional events increasingly seem to feature movie stars such as Harrison Ford and other celebrities as a way of gaining public attention for an issue. But at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging's Healthy Aging ...

WASHINGTON A far-reaching bill to remake the nations immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict. The Senate ...

In Harrison, a small, rural community in southwest Montana, the new school-funding law means just $29,000 in new state aid for its school district next year -- but school Superintendent Fred Hofman says don't call that money "peanuts." "Without the ...