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Walmart heiress Alice Walton has emerged at the top on Forbes world’s richest women’s list for the second consecutive year.

According to the latest Forbes World’s Billionaires ranking, the 134-billion-dollar fortune of Walton shows her dominance among female billionaires.

She was first named the world’s richest woman in September 2024, after dethroning L’Oréal heiress, Françoise Bettencourt.

French L’Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers ($100 billion) and Julia Koch, widow of the late industrialist David Koch, followed with $81.2 billion.

Out of 3,428 billionaires listed this year, 481 are women, 14% of the list, up from 406, or 13.4%, last year.

Chilean mining and beverage heiress Iris Fontbona clinched the fourth place with $52.6 billion, surpassing Candy and pet food heiress Jacqueline Mars ($49.1 billion), who fell to fifth. Her rise is particularly notable as she was previously outside the top 10.

Among the top 10 richest women, the only self-made billionaire is Swiss shipping magnate Rafaela Aponte-Diamant ($44.5 billion), who dropped from fifth to sixth place. Overall, just 122 of the 481 female billionaires made their own fortunes, up slightly from 113 last year. The next richest self-made woman is American roofing magnate Diane Hendricks ($22.3 billion).

Beyoncé, the global music superstar, made her debut this year with a net worth of $1 billion.

Other notable self-made women include Rihanna ($1 billion), Spanx founder Sara Blakely ($1.4 billion), and Taylor Swift ($2 billion). Another newcomer is Luana Lopes Lara, a former ballerina from Brazil who co-founded the prediction market firm Kalshi. At 29, she becomes the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, taking the title from 31-year-old Scale AI co-founder Lucy Guo ($1.4 billion).

Melinda French Gates ($30.3 billion) and Marilyn Simons ($32.5 billion) were replaced by Iris Fontbona and Zheng Shuliang ($33.2 billion), vice chair of a Chinese aluminum company founded by her late husband.

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Syria said Iran-backed Hezbollah had fired artillery shells into its territory from Lebanon overnight, state media reported on Tuesday, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Shia movement.

Syrian army officials said artillery shells fired from Lebanon landed near the town of Serghaya, west of Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.

The army accused Hezbollah of targeting Syrian army positions, telling the news agency it observed Hezbollah reinforcements at the Syrian-Lebanese border.

“The Syrian Arab Army will not tolerate any aggression targeting Syria,” the army said in a statement to SANA.

Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes.

Hezbollah and Israeli forces have clashed in eastern Lebanon in recent days, and Israel has carried out strikes across Lebanon, including on the capital Beirut.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Hezbollah of working to “collapse” the state, while the head of the group’s parliamentary bloc said it had “no other option… than the option of resistance.”

Hezbollah provided military support to former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown in December 2024 by an Islamist coalition hostile to the pro-Iranian Shia movement.

Since then, its supply routes from Syria have been cut off, and Lebanese and Syrian authorities are trying to combat smuggling across the porous border between the two countries.

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Dangote refinery has slashed petrol and diesel prices by N100.

In the latest pricing template from the refinery, issued on March 10, 2026, the price of petrol at the gantry has been reduced by ₦100, bringing it down to ₦1,075 per litre from the earlier price of ₦1,175 per litre.

The refinery has further stated that the price of PMS for coastal supply will now be set at ₦1,050 per litre, which accounts for a minor adjustment due to maritime distribution expenses.

In a similar manner, the cost of Automotive Gas Oil (diesel) has been lowered to ₦1,430 per litre at the gantry. This marks a reduction of ₦190 from the previous price of ₦1,620 per litre.

The refinery pointed out that the prices at the gantry do not include fees from the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).