TODAY:The world's richest are getting richer, but all that wealth and power doesn't necessarily put them beyond the reach of the law, as some are discovering this week. The figure of 18 Canadians killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 under-reports the significance of the crash for Canada. In 2018, the world's richest people saw their collective fortunes grow by 12 per cent, or $2.5 billion US a day. In even starker terms, in 2016 the top 61 billionaires had as much wealth as half of the world's population, some 3.8 billion people. New cities are just that — entire cities built from scratch.

Source: CBC News March 20, 2019 18:22 UTC