Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday became the world's richest person, as a jump in the share price of the United States (US) tech giant enabled him to overtake Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Forbes magazine estimated...
According to Forbes, Gates has been the richest person in the magazine's annual rankings in March for the past four years and 18 of the past 22 years...
com and the Washington Post publications Jeff Bezos has been named the richest man in the world by two major financial publications...
But even if Bezos doesn’t end the day as the richest man, he will likely take the crown from Gates more permanently in the coming days and weeks...
Spanish retail giant Amancio Ortega leapfrogged Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates to become the richest person in the world, Forbes reported on Wednesday...
Ortega took the title of the world's richest man for a short span last year when Inditex shares hit an all-time high and boosted his net worth to $80bn...
SAN FRANCISCO: Jeff Bezos is officially the richest person on the planet thanks to the success of Amazon — but his bold vision extends to space and even time itself...
Bezos leapt past Bill Gates this week to the top spot on an annual Forbes magazine list of billionaires, relegating the Microsoft co-founder to second place with a net worth of about $90 billion...
As Amazon became the second US firm to hit a trillion-dollar value on the stock market, founder Jeff Bezos regained the crown as the richest person on the planet...
India's Mukesh Ambani has lost his crown as Asia's richest person after the latest rout across global markets wiped almost $6 billion off his fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index...
All told, the world's 500 richest people lost $238...
The BHC had taken up the case in 2011 and handed a death penalty to Rehmatullah, life imprisonment to Abdul Rehman and a 14-year jail sentence to Murad Ali...
Raymond Davis — United States citizen and ex-Central Intelligence Agency employee who sparked a diplomatic storm in Pakistan in 2011 after shooting dead two young men in Lahore — has written a book about his experience...
In his memoir, titled The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis, Davis talks in detail about his experience in Pakistan...
Read: Modi returns to India after surprise Pakistan visitThe two were even dressed similarly, in shalwar qameezes and short, sleeveless achkan coats...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hardliner has had a consistently hawkish stand on Pakistan through his career...
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday inaugurated the Kacchi Canal project in Balochistan's Dera Bugti district, Radio Pakistan reported...
"The people of this province should feel that the rest of Pakistan is repaying its debt to Balochistan...
CAIRO: Egypt's high court said on Thursday former president Hosni Mubarak would be retried in the case of the 2011 killing of protesters...
Earlier in Novmber 2014, an Egyptian court has dismissed criminal charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three-decade reign...
COLOMBO: Former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga on Friday demanded an investigation into the country’s 2011 World Cup final defeat by India amid allegations of match-fixing...
“We must investigate what happened to Sri Lanka at the 2011 World Cup final...
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it has documented the deaths of 331,765 people across Syria since the conflict erupted in mid-March 2011 with anti-government protests...
Included in the overall death toll are 99,617 civilians, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP, adding that the figures were for the period between March 15, 2011 and July 15, 2017...
Sri Lanka's sports minister gave his support Wednesday for an investigation into the country's controversial 2011 World Cup loss against India, amid fresh allegations of match fixing...
Last year, the International Cricket Council imposed a three-year ban on a top Sri Lankan official Jayananda Warnaweera for failing to cooperate with an anti-corruption investigation...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) decided 29,784 cases since its establishment in January 2011, said Chief Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi...
“The consultation to fill the vacant positions is in progress and the IHC will soon send proposals to the Judicial Commission of Pakistan,” he said...