Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

A mother carries her sleeping baby during a safety training workshop for displaced Boko Haram victims on the identification of dangerous objects, at the Gubio camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria May 6, 2022. Picture taken May 6, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo
Africa

Gates, others launch $500 million maternal, newborn health fund, bucking aid cuts trend

The Beginnings Fund was launched on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the home of another key backer - the United Arab Emirates' recently established Mohamed Bin Zayed Foundation for Humanity

Bridging the gap: Leaders convene to enhance financial access for women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh
Corporates

Bridging the gap: Leaders convene to enhance financial access for women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus. File Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

CA seeks Gates Foundation’s enhanced support for Bangladesh health sector

A nutritionist measures the height of a child, who has been diagnosed with malnutrition, at a nutritional recovery centre in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala August 16, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/File Photo
Health

Climate change will escalate child health crisis due to malnutrition: Bill Gates

A boy receives a polio vaccine during a three-day immunization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen November 29, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Nusaibah Almuaalemi//File Photo
Health

Global health heavyweights team up for climate, disease funding

Photo: Courtesy
World+Biz

Bill gates says he would choose to marry ex-wife Melinda "all over again"

A person passes by on a scooter in front of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, U.S. May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo
Climate Change

Gates Foundation, Qatar to spend $200m on climate-adaptive agriculture

FILE PHOTO: Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates attend a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. More than 40 heads of state and government -- almost double the number last year -- will be joined at the WEF meeting by 36 finance ministers and central bankers, including the central bank chiefs of all the G8 group of rich countries except the United States. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
World+Biz

Bill Gates says divorce from Melinda a 'very sad milestone,' meetings with Epstein a 'mistake'

Bill and Melinda Gates are presented with the 2016 Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President Obama at White House on November 22, 2016 in Washington, DC.Photographer: Leigh Vogel/WireImage
World+Biz

Gates Foundation says co-chair Melinda could leave after two years

FILE PHOTO: Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, takes his seat to speak at the Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit in Washington October 13, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
World+Biz

Warren Buffett resigns from Gates Foundation, has donated half his fortune

A welcome plaque is pictured outside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, US May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson
World+Biz

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates explore changes to charitable foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates are presented with the 2016 Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President Obama at White House on November 22, 2016 in Washington, DC.Photographer: Leigh Vogel/WireImage
Global Economy

Bill and Melinda Gates start dividing a $145 billion fortune

FILE PHOTO: Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates attend a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 30, 2009. More than 40 heads of state and government -- almost double the number last year -- will be joined at the WEF meeting by 36 finance ministers and central bankers, including the central bank chiefs of all the G8 group of rich countries except the United States. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
World+Biz

Bill and Melinda Gates agreed 'separation contract' before divorce announcement