Bill Gates: We are vulnerable to flu epidemic in next decade

Bill Gates

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says he is crossing his fingers that a deadly flu epidemic does not strike in the next 10 years because the world is "a bit vulnerable right now".

A down day in the markets clobbered the world’s richest people—but not this Nigerian billionaire

Aliko Dangote

When stocks took a beating this week on concerns about Greece’s solvency and China’s overheated equity market, the world’s billionaires took a beating, too. On June 29, the 400 richest people on the planet lost a combined $70 billion in a single day, according to Bloomberg.