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• Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island

  the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson's private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region's coastal resources by 2020.Participants are expected   Read more »

• Richard Branson shaved legs, put on lipstick after losing Formula One racing team bet

  business magnate Richard Branson has lost his latest job because of orange juice.The Virgin Group founder had his legs shaved, put on lipstick and squeezed into a red skirt to honor a bet by serving as a flight attendant Sunday on an AirAsia trip from Perth,   Read more »

• Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight

  closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space."It couldn't have gone more smoothly," said Sir Richard Branson, who owns the spaceline with Aabar Investments PJC of Abu Dhabi.A special twin-fuselage jet carrying SpaceShipTwo took off   Read more »

• China's CCTV treats April Fool's joke as real news

  -- When Virgin founder Richard Branson made an April Fool's Day announcement about starting a glass-bottomed plane service, at least one major news outlet didn't see through to the joke. China's huge state broadcaster, CCTV, ran it as odd -- but real -- news.The   Read more »

• NM governor signs space travel liability bill

  nearly quarter-billion-dollar investment in a futuristic spaceport and retaining its anchor tenant, British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.The new law exempts spacecraft parts suppliers from liability lawsuits by passengers. Lawmakers had previously   Read more »

Around the web

• Billionaire Activist Dan Loeb Adds to His Campaign

  which includes Virgin shareholders getting $17.50 and a 36% stake in Liberty Media. Virgin Media was formed by a merger of Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile and cable operator NTL. Virgin is now a leading entertainment and communications business, providing 44 m ago from Motley Fool Read more »

• Someone Paid $1.5M (For Charity) to Fly to Space with Leonardo DiCaprio

  At some point in the near future, a non-famous person will get to sit beside famous person Leonardo DiCaprio as they board Richard Branson ’s Virgin Galactic for a trip to space. On Thursday, the seat was sold for $1.5 million at amfAR’s Cinema Against AIDS 3:13 PM from Celebuzz Read more »

• Delta strengthens its hand in battle for NY travel market with $1.4 billion JFK terminal

  CEO Richard Branson, left, and Delta airlines CEO Richard Anderson pose for photographers inside the new Delta terminal 4 at JFK airport, Friday, May 24, 2013 in New York. Delta opened its new $1.4 billion terminal, strengthening its hand in the battle for 2:50 PM from Winnipeg Free Press Read more »

• Forty years of Virgin: How Richard Branson’s eccentric record label changed the charts

  he would "either go to prison or become a millionaire". The second part of the statement would come true a few years later. As Branson reveals in his autobiography Losing My Virginity, Simon Draper, Branson's music-mad South African cousin, the one who knew 2:32 PM from The Independent Read more »

• Airline with in-flight bar and Swarovki crystals named best in world

  published by The Daily Telegraph. Announced this week out of London, the carrier helmed by splashy billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson snagged the lofty title from runners-up British Airways, Emirates, Qantas and Singapore Airlines at the Ultratravel 11:23 AM from The Malaysian Insider Read more »