The world's richest man told a group of university students in Lebanon, his ancestral home, on Wednesday that education and jobs are the best way to fight poverty. Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carlos Slim, the world's richest man according to Forbes, has created hundreds of thousands of jobs in Mexico, but he also is seen to typify a business elite that amassed fortunes by exploiting the poor. Slim, whose Telmex and America Movil companies dominate Mexico's telephone industry and have helped him build a $53.5 billion ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Carlos Slim, named the world's richest man on Wednesday, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and snacks to his family. As a youngster he also kept accounting ledgers of what he earned and spent and bought a government savings bond from ...

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has dethroned Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world wealthiest person and China is fast catching up with the number of US billionaires on the annual Forbes rich list. The new annual list saw the 70-year old Slim catapult from third place last year to the top spot, thanks to the success of his America Movil ...