Ingvar Kamprad 'recycles tea bags and steals salt'

(Updates with Ingvar Kamprad's net worth in the sixth paragraph.) May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Liechtenstein, a principality once fabled for its banking secrecy laws, is losing its perch as one of the world's top tax havens for the richest people on Earth.

The world's wealthiest people lost a combined $45.7 billion this week, as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index pared its worst weekly drop since November amid better- than-estimated earnings. Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, 87, overtook Amancio Ortega of ...

(Updates with Kamprad net worth details in the 11th paragraph.) May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person. The 57-year-old co-founder of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. recaptured the title from Mexican ...

For 60 years, the name of Berthold Beitz has been synonymous with Germany's biggest steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp AG (TKA), at first for his role in rebuilding the former arms supplier and helping it break with its Nazi past. Now, as head of the ...

Bill Gates has regained the title of the world's richest person, a position he lost in 2007 to Mexico's Carlos Slim due to fluctuations in the Microsoft mogul's stock market investments, according to Bloomberg's daily index. Gates's fortune is now ...

My first impression of an Ikea store was that of awe. Awe and wonder at how one place could have so many things, not just in quantity but also in the variety of product types and in the diversity of designs. So, my first hour of having to find a ...

52-y-o Jamaican jailed in US for murder 8:37 AM KINGSTON, Jamaica - Government senator Floyd Emerson Morris has been elected President of the Senate of Jamaica. He succeeds former President Reverend Stanley Redwood who last week formally resigned ...

More and more people feel stuck at work and are looking for validation. Not only do they want to be heard, but more importantly they want to know that their contributions are being noticed and not taken for granted. Not for the sake of attention, ...

Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia's 14th-richest person, and his wife, Elena Rybolovleva, have been brawling for almost five years in at least seven countries over his $9.5 billion fortune. In a divorce complaint originated in Geneva in 2008, ...