Forbes Rich List 2010: World's 100 wealthiest This is Money 11 March 2010, 10:50am Reader comments (16) For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man. Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=500941&in_page_id=2#ixzz0xtjAuvAF Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlo 'Slim' Herlu has knocked Microsoft owner Bill Gates off the top spot, with a $53.5bn fortune. Slim, who controls a string of companies, including Telmex and America Movil, is the first non-American for 16 years to be ranked as the richest person on earth. ›› Read more Below we present some facts on the top 10 and the full ranking of the world's top 100 richest people as estimated by Forbes magazine. Listings include rank, name, home country or state, age where known, wealth in billions of dollars and country of residence. Don't Miss - Forbes Rich List: 10 things you didn't know - The Forbes Rich List 2009 The Top Ten: 1. Carlos Slim Helu (£35.7bn) Telecoms, Mexico Tycoon who pounced on privatisation of Mexico's national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world's richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. 2. Bill Gates (£35.4bn) Microsoft, US More than 60% of fortune held outside Microsoft including Four Seasons hotels, Televisa, Auto Nation. Warren Buffett 3. Warren Buffett (£31.3bn) Investments, US Shrewdly invested £3.3bn in Goldman Sachs and £2bn in General Electric amid 2008 market collapse. 4. Mukesh Ambani (£19.3bn) Petrochemicals, oil and gas, India His Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company, bid £1.3bn for 65% stake in troubled Canadian oil sands outfit Value Creations. Lakshmi Mittal 5. Lakshmi Mittal (£19.1bn) Steel, India London's richest resident oversees ArcelorMittal, world's largest steel maker. Net profits fell 75% in 2009. Mittal took 12% pay cut but improved outlook pushed stock up one-third. Larry Ellison, Oracle 6. Lawrence Ellison (£18.7bn) Oracle, US Database giant has bought 57 companies in the past five years. Completed £5bn buyout of Sun Microsystems in January. 7. Bernard Arnault (£18.3bn) Luxury goods, France The richest European thanks to shares of his luxury goods outfit LVMH - maker of Louis Vuitton, Moet & Chandon - surging 57%. 8. Eike Batista (£18.2bn) Mining, oil, Brazil This year's biggest gainer added £13bn to his personal balance sheet. Son of Brazil's revered former mining minister got his start in gold trading and mining. Amancio Ortega 9. Amancio Ortega (£16.6bn) Fashion retail, Spain Owns Inditex; fashion firm, which operates under brand names including Zara, Massimo Dutti and Stradivarius. It has 4,500 stores in 73 countries. 10. Karl Albrecht (£15.7bn) Supermarkets, Germany Owns discount supermarket giant Aldi Sud, one of Germany's (and Europe's) largest stores. Estimated sales: £24.7bn. Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=500941&in_page_id=2#ixzz0xtjKIbtQ