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Bill Gates Is Still the Richest Man in America

Forbes revealed its annual listing of the richest Americans whose minimum net is $1.3 billion. Can you guess who got the top place? If you say Bill Gates you got that right on target! This year is already his 14th year in that position. This year Forbes disclosed that Bill Gates’ wealth amounting to $59 billion. Though in the worldwide scene, Gates has been surpassed in being the individual with the highest net-worth by Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim whose fortune is now $62.9, that’s according to Mexican Website Sentido Comun.

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Longest Bus In China!

Photo of the longest bus In China

It’s no surprise that people have a theory that China will in fact take over the world at one point! No only can China copy anything and sell it for half the price but they make the most interesting and random products. Following the theme of random a Chinese company, Yutung, has just released the longest bus in China which is around 24.99 meters long. Merely looking at the length you can tell that this so called ‘bus’ is more like a train except it doesn’t travel on a track and instead can travel on any road.

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50% Divorcees!

I’m sure all of us have looked at a celebrity and wished they could live their lives of luxury and so called happiness, but a new survey about celebrities is showing us the not-so-happy side of being a celebrity. It seems that 50% of all female artists have been or are divorced in addition 6% of all female artists have canceled an engagement. It doesn’t stop there though 15% of female artists in the Arab world have surpassed the age for marriage and may have to die alone.

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Nokia No.1, Good or Bad News?!

For a while now Nokia has been known to many as the best mobile phone brand worldwide and it seems that the numbers are reflecting this. According to research completed by Gartner a company specializing in mobile phone sales the Finnish Nokia Company managed to increase its market share to 36.9%, this may not seem like such a big number but Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson share only 37% of the market. Further number crunching showed that general mobile phone sales have gone up by 17% this year, and that sales increased to 40% in Asia.

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