4 h. ago Of course Mark Zuckerberg is still doing good works – he’s just switched up the definition of ‘good’ | Emma Brockes

Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to?If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a story from the New York Times this week in which Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are discovered to have been running a private school out of their compound in Palo Alto, California, in violation of city zoning laws. More pertinently, the school of 14 kids, which includes two of the couple’s three daughters, is less than a mile from the school for low-income families that the couple founded in 2016. Guess which school the world’s second-richest man and his wife are shutting down?Say the word “zoning infraction” to a certain stripe of American and the effect is equal to using “queue jumper” on a Briton, but of course the broader point here isn’t one about permits. (A spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan told the newsp...

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3 d. ago Elon Musk’s Tesla applies to supply electricity to households in Great Britain

US carmaker makes move for licence that would allow it to provide energy to domestic and business premisesElon Musk’s Tesla is gearing up to launch a household electricity supplier in Great Britain in the coming months.The US electric car manufacturer run by the world’s richest man has formally applied to the energy regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, for an electricity supply licence, according to a notice published on the watchdog’s website. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Boss of world's richest travel firm suggests lotteries in popular destinations to combat overtourism

Overtourism tensions have been brewing for some time, with many locals in holiday hotspots frustrated. Now, the boss of the world's richest travel firm has proposed a lottery system.

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6 d. ago Boss of world's richest travel firm proposes lotteries in popular destinations to combat overtourism

Overtourism tensions have been brewing for some time, with many locals in holiday hotspots frustrated. Now, the boss of the world's richest travel firm has proposed a lottery system.

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7 d. ago Holiday roulette? Boss of world’s richest travel firm proposes lottery to tackle overtourism

Glenn Fogel, CEO of Booking.com’s parent company, says his job is ‘not to force to somebody to go someplace else’

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8 d. ago World's richest footballer worth £15.1bn went to same school as England cricket star

The footballer believed to be the richest in the world went to school in England when he was a teenager - and one of Englahd's cricketers was educated at the same place

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8 d. ago Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald review – humanity’s greatest myth?

A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better takes us from the Book of Genesis to neoliberalismEverything is in decline, argues the geographer Samuel Miller McDonald. Democracy and free speech are in freefall. Inequality is soaring, with the 1% scooping up ever-larger shares of global wealth. These days, the US has a Gini coefficient – the most common international measurement of inequality – on a par with slave-owning Ancient Rome. Maternal mortality rates for American millennials are three times higher than those of their parents’ generation – and this in the world’s richest society.Global life expectancy is falling. So, too, are food standards. Outside a few bourgeois sourdough enclaves, real bread has vanished. In its place we get mass-produced, spongy, tasteless “pseudo-bread” – as Guy Debord lamented in The Encyclopedia of Nuisances. In an earlier age, there would have been bread riots. Now? Just muted indigestion. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to ‘energise and focus’ Elon Musk

World’s richest man threatened to quit as CEO of electric-vehicle maker if he was not given more stock

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1 week ago Who is the richest wrestler in the world 2025? Top 15 richest wrestlers ever

Here are the 15 wrestlers with the biggest net worth in the world, from Cody Rhodes to John Cena, ahead of WWE Summerslam 2025.

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3 w. ago How Joe Rogan became the world's richest podcaster: As he lounges on a £480k

A wise public figure would surely think twice these days before allowing themselves to be caught swanning around the Med on an ostentatious, fuel-guzzling, money-burning superyacht.

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3 w. ago World's second richest man promised to 'give away 95%' of £186bn fortune

Larry Ellison leapfrogged Mark Zuckerberg in the Bloomberg wealth index this week to be declared the second richest person in the world with a net worth of $251.2billion (£186bn)

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4 w. ago Who is the richest golf player in the world 2025? Top 15 richest golfers ever

Here are the 15 golfers with the biggest net worth in the world ahead of The Open Championship 2025.

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4 w. ago 'World richest actor' who hasn't had a role in six years is now a billionaire

Arnold Schwarzenegger was once the highest-earning actor in the world, but it's been years since he's starred in a leading role - and his fortune has sky-rocketed all the while

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