Gates No. 1 on Shrinking Billionaire List

This may not elicit much sympathy, but Forbes' annual list of billionaires has shrunk from 1,125 names to 793 this year. Bill Gates lost $18 billion but managed to regain the top spot from Warren Buffett, who lost $25 billion. Here's the top 10:

• Gates, $40 billion
• Buffett, $37 billion
• Mexico's Carlos Slim, $35 billion
• Oracle's Larry Ellison, $22.5 billion
• Ikea's Ingvar Kamprad, $22 billion

• Germany's Karl Albrecht (supermarkets), $21.5 billion
• India's Mukesh Ambani (petrochemicals), $19.5 billion
• India's Lakshmi Mittal (steel), $19.3 billion
• Germany's Theo Albrecht (supermarkets), $18.8 billion
• Spain's Amancio Ortega (fashion), $18.3 billion

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