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CBC News - Money - Bill Gates no longer world's richest man

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Bill Gates no longer world's richest man

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 9:48 PM ET Comments166Recommend48

Despite dropping out of the top spot on the billionaires list,  Bill Gates' fortune rose by $13 billion US last year. (Jerome  Favre/Associated Press)Despite dropping out of the top spot on the billionaires list, Bill Gates' fortune rose by $13 billion US last year. (Jerome Favre/Associated Press)

For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.

Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on Earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/03/10/forbes-billionaires.html#ixzz0hqPocMZG

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