62 Richest people in the world according to Oxfam (2014)
1. Bill Gates ($76bn)
2. Carlos Slim Helu & family ($72bn)
3. Amancio Ortega ($64bn)
4. Warren Buffett ($58.2bn)
5. Larry Ellison ($48bn)
6. Charles Koch ($40bn)
7. David Koch ($40bn)
8. Sheldon Adelson ($38bn)
9. Christy Walton & family ($36.7bn)
10. Jim Walton ($34.7bn)
11. Liliane Bettencourt & family ($34.5bn)
12. Stefan Persson ($34.4bn)
13. Alice Walton ($34.3bn)
14. S. Robson Walton ($34.2bn)
15. Bernard Arnault & family ($33.5bn)
16. Michael Bloomberg ($33bn)
17. Larry Page ($32.3bn)
18. Jeff Bezos ($32bn)
19. Sergey Brin ($31.8bn)
20. Li Ka-shing ($31bn)
21. Mark Zuckerberg ($28.5bn)
22. Michele Ferrero & family ($26.5bn)
23. Karl Albrecht ($25bn)
24. Aliko Dangote ($25bn)
25. Carl Icahn ($24.5bn)
26. George Soros ($23bn)
27. David Thomson & family ($22.6bn)
28. Lui Che Woo ($22bn)
29. Dieter Schwarz ($21.1bn)
30. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud ($20.4bn)
31. Forrest Mars Jr ($20bn)
32. Jacqueline Mars ($20bn)
33. John Mars ($20bn)
34. Jorge Paulo Lemann ($19.7bn)
35. Lee Shau Kee ($19.6bn)
36. Theo Albrecht Jr & family ($19.3bn)
37. Steve Ballmer ($19.3bn)
38. Leonardo Del Vecchio ($19.2bn)
39. Len Blavatnik ($18.7bn)
40. Mukesh Ambani ($18.6bn)
41. Alisher Usmanov ($18.6bn)
42. Michael Otto & family ($18.4bn)
43. Phil Knight ($18.4bn)
44. Masayoshi Son ($18.4bn)
45. Tadashi Yanai & family ($17.9bn)
46. Gina Rinehart ($17.7bn)
47. Mikhail Fridman ($17.6bn)
48. Michael Dell ($17.5bn)
49. Susanne Klatten ($17.4bn)
50. Abigail Johnson ($17.3bn)
51. Viktor Vekselberg ($17.2bn)
52. Lakshmi Mittal ($16.7bn)
53. Vladimir Lisin ($16.6bn)
54. Cheng Yu-tung ($16.2bn)
55. Joseph Safra ($16bn)
56. Paul Allen ($15.9bn)
57. Leonid Mikhelson ($15.6bn)
58. Anne Cox Chambers ($15.5bn)
59. Iris Fontbona & family ($15.5bn)
60. Francois Pinault & family ($15.5bn)
61. Azim Premji ($15.3bn)
62. Mohammed Al Amoudi ($15.3bn)
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Playboy mansion for sale, with a twist.
Playboy Magazine’s parent company put the West Los Angeles estate on the market on Monday for $200m (£138m).
The five-acre property has appeared in numerous films and TV shows as a luxurious bachelor pad.
As a condition of the sale, Mr Hefner, 89, would be allowed to stay in his home of 45 years.
“The Playboy Mansion has been a creative centre for Hef as his residence and workplace… as it will continue to be if the property is sold,” Playboy chief executive Scott Flanders said in a statement.
The mansion has 29 rooms, a wine cellar and a home theatre, but real estate experts say the home would need major upgrades to match current high-end properties in Beverly Hills.
However, buyers would get history. The backyard includes a swimming pool with the famous cave-like grotto where Playboy bunnies mixed with celebrities.
In addition to “bunnies”, the estate is currently home to monkeys, cockatoos, peacocks, African cranes, parrots, toucans and pelicans. And the new owner could keep them – thanks to a rare zoo licence.
Mr Hefner bought the home in 1971 for $1m. The estate eventually replaced the original Playboy Mansion, which opened in 1959 in Chicago.
The proposed sale comes as Playboy has been making changes to its businesses as demand for nude pictures has dropped with online porn becoming ubiquitous.
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[recipe] Beer bread
3 cups flour
1 tbsp baking powder
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 can (355ml) dark beer, at room temperature (Bass, Newcastle, Guiness, etc)
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
Preheat the oven to 375F/190C. In a mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients. Add the beer all at once, mixing as little as possible; the batter should be lumpy.
Grease a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan with half the butter. Pour the batter into a and brush with the rest of melted butter. Sprinkle top with kosher salt.
Bake in the oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Turn out onto a rack to cool.