1.   The billionaire media tycoon was said to have lost the money playing baccarat.

2.   Among the candidates rejected by parliament were billionaire telecommunications tycoon and former Deputy Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who quit politics in November to run for the assembly.

3.   Billionaire business tycoon Boris Berezovsky began his tour of head of the new Commonwealth of Independent States on Thursday, paying lightning visits to Moldova and Ukraine.

4.   Billionaire tycoon Boris Berezovsky accuses the government of dragging Russia back into its totalitarian past by giving security services power and ignoring anti-Semitism.

5.   Continued efforts by Hariri, a billionaire tycoon, are widely seen as indispensable for revitalizing the war-shattered economy and encouraging foreign investment.

6.   Hariri, a billionaire construction tycoon who returned to the premiership in October two years ago, is seen as a stabilizing economic factor.

7.   One source for this belief lies in the remarks of Boris Berezovsky, a billionaire business tycoon who is a powerful, shadowy force in Russian politics.

8.   Prosecutors demanded a sentence of seven years and nine months for billionaire construction tycoon Juergen Schneider during closing arguments at his fraud trial Friday.

9.   Thaksin, a billionaire telecommunications tycoon who aspires to become prime minister, is under investigation.

10.   The billionaire business tycoon was named executive secretary of the group last week.