Billionaire Britain

They have expectations and a lifestyle beyond imagination - and they are changing the face of Britain. According to an authoritative new survey by the Hurun Global Rich List, Britain now has an astonishing 56 sterling billionaires.
London already boasts more than 30. And last night it emerged that French luxury goods tycoon Francois-Henri Pinault and his wife,  Hollywood star Salma Hayek, are moving to Kensington.
Around half of Britain’s super-rich have come from abroad, attracted to the lifestyle, private schools and the rule of law. There is also less scrutiny of tax and general business affairs than in some jurisdictions. 

Ukrainian-born American Leonard Blavatnik, 56, is the richest man in the UK worth £10.8billion

New millionaires include Farhad Moshiri, an Iranian-British businessman who owns 15 per cent of Arsenal Football Club, and Indonesian entrepreneur Prakash Lohia, who made his fortunes from petrochemicals and textiles. Known as The Maharajah of Mayfair, he spent an estimated £50 million restoring his London house. 
They appear alongside established names such as retail tycoon Philip Green and property magnates Earl Cadogan and the Duke of Westminster. And rich list regular Richard Branson has increased his personal wealth by 32 per cent in a year.
Here, then, are Britain’s top 50 billionaires in order - along with their taste in planes, yachts, art and property, with the odd charitable donation along the way.

Richard Branson, worth £3.5billion, pictured with Dita Von Teese for Virgin Atlantic's 10th anniversary

British James Dyson, 66, £2.9billion, invented the bagless vacuum cleaner

Britain's newest billionaire Farhad Moshiri and Nicole Scherzinger at the Global Gift Gala in London

Slavica Ecclestone has £1bn of her own post divorce from Bernie Ecclestone, who has £400m more

Lord David Sainsbury, worth £1.1bn, Lord Sainsbury, 73, served as Labour Minister for Science and Innovation

Mary Perkins, Founder and Head of the Optican, Specsavers, is the richest woman born in the UK

Mohamed al Fayed, 85, former owner of Harrods, owns the Balnagown estate in Scotland

Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, worth £4.8¿billion, owns Chelsea FC but began selling plastic ducks

New pictures show eye-popping opulence of ousted Ukrainian president's

New pictures have been released that reveal the vulgar luxury that the deposed leader of Ukraine lived in.
Viktor Yanukovich fled to Russia recently following one of the worst periods of violence in the country's history and left behind a new tourist attraction - his sprawling luxury estate in Mezhyhirya, an hour's drive from Kiev.
Hundreds of people have since flocked to view the mansion, which is set in a beautiful forested estate of graceful waterways, summer houses and exotic gardens.

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych lived in extreme luxury, with furniture and fittings that few five-star hotels would have

Astonished: Tourists file through one of the grand living rooms and take pictures

Visitors peer through the front entrance, which features a grand sweeping staircase

Yanukovich's house is stuffed with fine ornaments, including this golden leopard

Visitors rubbed their eyes in disbelief when they were confronted by the scale of the opulence Yanukovich had built around him.
The property, closed off to the world for nearly a decade, has a golf course, helicopter pad and is situated in a country where the average salary is less than £300 a month
Below the house, a garage is filled with classic sports cars worth millions, while in the exotic gardens Australian and African ostriches stretch their legs.

No expense spared: Some of the items in the palace are worth thousands of pounds

Secret: The huge property, closed off to the public for a month, contained rooms designed for entertaining guests in style

Expensive art: A classic painting hangs on one of the walls

This room is so chock-a-block with finery that at first glance its purpose isn't apparent

Intrigue: Visitors peruse one of Yanukovich's lavishly appointed rooms, as a security guard looks on

Locals said that up to 3,000 security and support staff would arrive when Yanukovich planned a major social event.
The release of the pictures comes as Ukraine and Russia inch towards all-out war, which could effect the stablity of the whole of Europe, possibly the world.
Russian troops surrounded a Ukrainian infantry base on Sunday as Ukraine's leaders mobilised the country's armed forces in preparation for conflict.
Ukraine called on Sunday for 'real steps' by world leaders for help. Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said 'we are on the brink of disaster' and the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin were said to amount to a declaration of war.
'Any attempt to attack military installations is in fact direct military aggression against our country and the Russian military and the Russian leadership will be held responsible,' Acting President Oleksander Turchinov said.
Crimea is now effectively controlled by Russia directly or with the help of so-called self defence units, which in reality include Russian troops and GRU intelligence personnel.

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Is this the world's most gruesome food

These are the shocking images of a gruesome food market where dogs are strangled by rope for food and customers can purchase whole flame-roasted animals.
The Tomohon Traditional market in North Sulawesi, Indonesia sells whole monkeys, bats, cats, dogs, pigs, rats, sloths and even giant pythons laid out on tables with painful expressions still etched on their faces.
The macabre food stalls were witnessed by Oman-based photographer and blogger, Raymond Walsh, 44, who said it was easier to witness the dead and mutilated animals than it was to see the living dogs in cages awaiting their fate.

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Awaiting their fate: These dogs are kept in cramped cages for hours before they are eventually hung by a rope and flame roasted whole at a meat market in Indonesia

Grisly: The blackened bodies of dozens of dogs sit on a table in Tomohon Traditional market in North Sulawesi

Brutal: The dogs' flame-roasted bodies are curled up on a floor covered in blood at the Indonesian market

Sad: Not only is this dog likely to be turned into meat, it is also chained to the floor of a cramped cage, leaving it barely able to move in the hours before its death

Bloody: Most of the killing and butchery at the market takes place in view of the public. The result is harrowing

Mr Walsh said: 'It was typical of a lot of local markets in the developing world - lots of fruit, vegetables and fish. The only difference was the sheer number of dead animals for sale.'
On his blog www.manonthelam.com, he describes the harrowing sight of dogs in cages with their dead counterparts lying on a table nearby.

'It was easier to stomach the entrails of monkeys, rats on a stick and decapitated pigs than it was to see those live dogs awaiting their fate,' he said.
'The other animals seem foreign but I have friends who have dogs.'

 

The Tomohon Traditional market in North Sulawesi, Indonesia sells whole monkeys, bats, cats, dogs (pictured), pigs, rats, sloths and even giant pythons laid out on tables with painful expressions still etched on their faces

The macabre food stalls were witnessed by Oman-based photographer and blogger, Raymond Walsh, 44

Scary: These terrifying and charred remains of a bat will be used in traditional Indonesian cooking

Mr Walsh said Tomohon was typical of a lot of local markets in the developing world with lots of fruit, vegetables and fish. The only difference was the sheer number of dead animals for sale, including these rats

The Oman-based professional photographer said he found the sight of dead dogs particularity harrowing

Would you eat one? Roasted rats are piled up on a table inside Tomohon Traditional market in Indonesia

Skewered: The rats are flame-roasted on sticks after being killed by having their heads thumped against a tree

Although the market's dead dogs may be difficult for westerners to look at, Mr Walsh points to the different cultures and attitudes towards the animals in South East Asia.
'Put simply, Westerners see dogs solely as pets. Indonesians see them as both pets and as sources of meat - it's just how we're raised,' he said.
In the photographs, many of the animals are stiff and completely black with a haunting pained expressions on their faces.
'After they are killed the animals are roasted over a fire, so the fur burns off, the skin tightens and peels back, causing that 'screaming' look,' Mr Walsh explained.
'How they are killed depends on the animal. Cats, monkeys, and sloths are shot. Bats and rats have their heads clobbered against a tree or table. Pigs are stabbed with a sharp piece of wood or metal,' he added.

Bats are just one of the animals sold as meat at the market. Mr Walsh says are killed by having their heads 'clobbered' against a tree

When asked to describe the smell, Mr Walsh said: 'In a word, appalling. There's something about the air that changes when there's that much death around'

Although the market's dead dogs may be difficult for westerners to look at, Mr Walsh points to the different cultures and attitudes towards the animals in South East Asia

In the photographs, many of the animals are stiff and completely black with a haunting pained expressions on their faces. On the left is a roasted monkey, while the animals on the right are dead rats

Painful: Dead dogs and snakes can be seen all over the market, many with gaping wounds on their burnt bodies

'Wild boars are killed as they as they are trapped. Snakes are slashed with a knife or have their heads cut off. Dogs are strangled with a rope,' Mr Walsh went on.
When asked to describe the smell, Mr Walsh said: 'In a word, appalling. There's something about the air that changes when there's that much death around.'
'It hangs heavy and it made me queasy and light-headed at the same time... It's the first time I'd ever encountered anything like it,' he added.

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Karikatur Zuckerberg didakwa anti-Yahudi

KARTUN yang disiarkan akhbar Suddeutsche Zeitung menunjukkan Zuckerberg umpama seekor sotong.

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MUNICH - Sebuah kartun mengenai pengasas bersama Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg yang disiarkan di sebuah akhbar Jerman, Suddeutsche Zeitung pada minggu lalu dikecam Pusat Simon Wiesenthal kerana ia memaparkan imej Anti-Semitik, lapor akhbar MailOnline semalam.
Seorang pemimpin agama Yahudi di Pusat Simon Wiesenthal, Abraham Cooper berkata, karikatur yang disiarkan pada Jumaat lalu itu adalah sesuatu yang memalukan.
Imej bertajuk Krake Facebook atau Gurita Facebook itu menunjukkan Zuckerberg melilit beberapa komputer dengan menggunakan tentakel sotong.
Dalam satu tentakel itu, Zuckerberg dilihat memegang logo aplikasi WhatsApp yang dibeli firmanya pada harga AS$19 bilion (RM62.3 bilion) baru-baru ini.
"Karikatur itu menyerupai imej yang digunakan Parti Nazi menjelang Perang Dunia Kedua. Ia satu kempen anti-Semitik untuk membenci bangsa Yahudi," kata Cooper.
"Zuckerberg sememangnya boleh dijadikan bahan lawak oleh media termasuk media Jerman, tetapi karikatur itu tidak wajar untuk disiarkan," tambahnya.
Mengulas isu tersebut, pelukis kartun berkenaan, Burkhard Mohr memberitahu akhbar Jerusalem Post bahawa dia terkejut dengan kerana dilabel anti-Semitik.
"Anti- Semitik dan perkauman merupakan ideologi yang asing buat saya," kata Mohr.
Menurutnya, karikaturnya dilukis untuk mengulas pembelian WhatsApp oleh Facebook.
"Saya memohon maaf jika ia melukakan hati sebahagian pembaca," ujarnya. - Agensi