Carlos Slim

Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds

Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk

Sandra Laville Environment correspondent

20, Nov, 2023 @12:01 AM

Who is more dangerous: El Chapo or Carlos Slim? | Michael Massing

While attention focuses on a mafia boss on trial in Brooklyn, the billionaire heads a power elite preserving inequality in Mexico

Michael Massing

20, Jan, 2019 @11:00 AM

The billionaire and the airport: could his last act in Mexico City ruin Carlos Slim?

In what is likely his last great urban intervention, the billionaire is constructing a massive new airport. The $13.4bn project is highly complex and controversial – can he pull it off?

Feike De Jong in Mexico City

28, Jun, 2017 @9:26 AM

Carlos Slim on Trump's border wall plans: 'The best wall is investment'

Mexican billionaire praises US president as ‘great negotiator’ but calls for development and employment rather than barrier

David Agren in Mexico City

27, Jan, 2017 @10:59 PM

Donald Trump as president 'would be a threat to press freedom'

US group that campaigns to protect journalists takes ‘unprecedented step’ of accusing Republican candidate of ‘betraying first amendment values’

Roy Greenslade

17, Oct, 2016 @6:51 AM

Givers that keep on giving: the world's top philanthropists

Mark Zuckerberg has joined a club of charitable billionaires who have given away large amounts of their money. We take a look at some of them

Sean Farrell

02, Dec, 2015 @4:05 PM

Carlos Slim becomes largest individual New York Times shareholder

World’s richest man exercises warrants in paper’s parent company, acquiring 15.9m shares in $101.1m purchase to bring his holding to 16.8% of class A stock

Mark Sweney

15, Jan, 2015 @9:34 AM

World's richest man would take 220 years to spend his wealth

Number of billionaires on Earth has more than doubled since the financial crisis, according to a new report from Oxfam

Ami Sedghi

29, Oct, 2014 @6:36 PM

Amazon to hire 1,000 UK distribution staff

Online retailer that faced criticism over working conditions says permanent employees now get three days off a week

Sean Farrell

13, Oct, 2014 @8:21 AM

Fast cars and fiestas as a poor Galician village welcomes home its millionaires

Ashifa Kassam: The population of the poor Galician settlement once fled their home to find work; but they never forgot it. Now it has become a summer home to some of Spain's richest emigrés

Ashifa Kassam in Avión

09, Aug, 2014 @11:05 PM