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it’s no surprise that Jennifer Aniston is the richest cast member of the American sitcom Friends, but what about Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and the others? Notorious for negotiating: In season one each cast member earned a cool US$22,500 per episode. That worked out to $540,000 for the entire first...

Thanks to soaring commodity prices, Gina Rinehart is once again the richest person in Australia, boasting a personal net worth of more than US$23.8 billion. She was followed by fellow miner Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest (US$20.9 billion), Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes (US$14.5 billion), and the other Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who...

Some countries are leaders in the shipping industry. In Europe for example, Greece and Germany have impressive shipping fleets while globally China is one of the strongest naval states in the world. Greece: Greece has a long history with the shipping sector. Greece though a small nation is one of...

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has more billionaire alumni than any other university in the world. It has an estimated 29 billionaire alumni, who own a total combined wealth of $207 billion. The University of Pennsylvania tied with Stanford University for the No. 2 spots with 28 billionaire alumni, placing...

With a net worth of roughly US$340 million, James Alan Hetfield (Metallica) is the wealthiest heavy metal singer in the world, followed by Ozzy Osbourne (No. 2, US$225 million), Bruce Dickinson (No. 3, US$100 million); and Rob Halford (No. 4, US$80 million). Like most incredibly successful rock and metal groups,...

With a net worth of roughly US$1.3 Billion, Élisabeth Badinter is the richest author in the world, followed by J.K. Rowling (No. 2, US$1 billion), James Patterson (No. 3, US$560 million); and Stephen King (No. 4, US$400 million). Élisabeth Badinter, a well-known philosopher and writer, is known for her books...

The battle of the billionaires: Bezos, Musk, Gates, and Zuckerberg — 4 of the 5 richest billionaires in the world, by Forbes’s Global Wealth League Table — all made their money in technology. Bernard Arnault seems to have become the odd man out among the techie multibillionaires. Judging by their...

Spain, France and Germany are the top 3 most competitive countries globally in the travel and tourism sector, according to recent data. Although the Covid-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the above economies as their tourism sector was hard hit, it is a matter of time to recover and...

Billions of computer scientists can be found all over the world. But which countries have the most distinguished ones? The United States lead the list with the most distinguished computer scientists for 2021. The number of leading computer scientists in the United States surpassed 600 people. One of the most...

With an incredible US$192.2 billion fortune, Bernard Arnault, the boss of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), is now reportedly the world’s wealthiest man, placing him above Amazon boss Jeff Bezos who is said to be worth US$187 billion. Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, is said to be the third...