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JEFF BEZOS AND BILL GATES GOT EVEN RICHER IN 2017
O Several technology startup billionaires were identified, including the chief executive officer of Roku and two co-founders of Wayfair... READ MORE›
EU ANNOUNCES 9BN IN FUNDING FOR CLIMATE ACTION
Calls for greater fossil fuel divestment at anniversary of paris climate deal... READ MORE›
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BILL GATES: BIOTERRORISM COULD KILL MORE THAN NUCLEAR WAR -- BUT NO ONE IS READY TO DEAL WITH IT
In his New England Journal of Medicine article, Gates said the United States's last epidemic simulation took place in 2001... READ MORE›
FOREIGN AID CUTS TO CONTRACEPTIVES IN TRUMP'S BUDGET HURT MILLIONS OF WOMEN
Melinda Gates Foreign aid cuts to contraceptives in Trump's budget hurt millions of women... READ MORE›
BILL GATES: NEW NATIONALISM COULD PUT GLOBAL HEALTH IN DANGER
-- The evolution of Bill Gates has seen the Microsoft cofounder master both technology and philanthropy... READ MORE›
FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT FUNDS DOUBLE TO $5TN IN A YEAR
Institutions worth 2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels... READ MORE›
A STORY OF HOPE THE GUARDIAN LAUNCHES PHASE II OF ITS CLIMATE CHANGE CAMPAIGN
So a major strand of our climate coverage up to Paris and beyond will be about climate change as a story of hope... READ MORE›
'THE WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN HEALTHIER, WEALTHIER OR LESS VIOLENT'
Former president urges optimism and focus on progress at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conference, despite shadow cast by Trump's UN speech... READ MORE›
GEORGE SOROS GIVES $18BN TO HIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
The latest combined donations of 18bn represent the bulk of Soros's estimated fortune of 23bn... READ MORE›
BILL GATES'S PHILANTHROPY COULD LOSE HIM HIS SPOT AS THE WORLD'S RICHEST
Ortega, whose net worth peaked at 85.9 billion in June 2, has since fallen behind Buffett to the No... READ MORE›
HOW PHILANTHROPIC DYNASTIES ARE EXERTING THEIR POWER OVER US POLICY
Overall, heirs who gain power through family philanthropy seldom seem inclined to use it to reinforce upper-class dominance... READ MORE›
SUPERBUGS, CLIMATE CHAOS HAVE BILL GATES AND THE UN WORRIED
The reluctance to address looming climate and technology risks shouldn't be too surprising, said Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
MARK ZUCKERBERG AND PRISCILLA CHAN PLEDGE $4 BILLION TO FIGHT ALL DISEASE
Several of Zuckerberg's Facebook co-founders or early executives have also pledged money to charity or specifically toward health initiatives... READ MORE›
70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
BILL GATES CALLS FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT A 'FALSE SOLUTION'
Bill Gates calls fossil fuel divestment a 'false solution'... READ MORE›
BILL GATES ON EBOLA AND THE LOW RISK OF THE DISEASE IN THE US
More kids are dying of malaria in these three countries now than they were before Ebola came along... READ MORE›
SENIOR SCIENTISTS CALL ON HEALTH CHARITIES TO SHIFT MONEY OUT OF FOSSIL FUELS
The more people invest in fossil fuel companies, the more these companies will exploit fossil fuels, he said... READ MORE›
GUARDIAN PETITION FOR FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT RECEIVES 60,000 SIGNATURES
Guardian petition for fossil fuel divestment receives 60,000 signatures... READ MORE›
'I WISH THEY COULD BE SAVED'
In 2015, Urmila received 1,00,000 rupees 1,535, ?1,160 as compensation that the Rajasthan government gives to silicosis-affected patients... READ MORE›
$640M PLEDGED AS THIRD OF WORLD MALNOURISHED
Donors have pledged an extra 640m ?490m to reduce the serious burden of malnutrition, which affects one in three people in the world... READ MORE›
BETTER ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL WOULD LIFT MANY WOMEN OUT OF POVERTY, MELINDA GATES SAYS
How do you think this new direction will impact American women's access to family planning and abortions?... READ MORE›
'HUGE DAMAGE': BILL GATES SAYS BIO-TERRORISM IS A GROWING THREAT AND THE WORLD ISN'T READY
Bill Gates warned at the World Economic Forum on Thursday that a new form of terrorism could be coming, and we are not prepared for it... READ MORE›
HALF THE WORLD'S POPULATION OWNS AS MUCH AS THESE EIGHT MEN
Bezos has reached beyond Amazon, in which he holds a 17 percent stake, to try his hand in other industries... READ MORE›
HEALTH INITIATIVE AIMS TO SAVE 100M LIVES WORLDWIDE
But Frieden believes there are basic things governments can do to protect their people, such as helping to lower high blood pressure... READ MORE›
HOWARD SCHULTZ, BILL AND MELINDA GATES WERE CONSIDERED AS CLINTON'S RUNNING MATE
A spokeswoman for Bill Gates declined to comment on the leaked email... READ MORE›
GATES-FUNDED RESEARCH COULD HELP COMBAT HUNGER WITH DRAMATIC CROP YIELDS
We're here because we want to alleviate poverty, said Katherine Kahn, the officer at the Gates Foundation overseeing the grant for the Illinois research... READ MORE›
BILL GATES EXPLAINS WHICH 'SUPERPOWER' HE'D CHOOSE TO HELP POOR
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda outline new strategy for helping the world's poor, based on which superpower they'd choose... READ MORE›
DONORS DRUGMAKERS OFFER 500 MILLION TO CONTROL GLOBAL EPIDEMICS
Scientists cannot test vaccines by giving healthy humans lethal doses of incurable diseases... READ MORE›
IOWA STATE STUDY WILL PAY STUDENTS TO EAT GMO BANANAS
But the trial was delayed, reportedly because of problems shipping the bananas from Australia... READ MORE›
WARREN BUFFETT LUNCH AUCTION DRAWS $4.7 MILLION BID
A crowd gathered in San Francisco Friday night to watch the final moments of bidding, erupting in cheers when the last offers came in... READ MORE›
LIFE EXPECTANCY IN SYRIA FELL BY SIX YEARS AT START OF CIVIL WAR
Between 2010 and 2013, average life expectancy dropped by approximately three months in Yemen, Tunisia and Egypt, according to research published in the Lancet global health journal... READ MORE›