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Gautam Adani becomes world’s third-richest person as wealth surges

NEW DELHI: Few outside of India had heard of Gautam Adani just a few years ago. Now the businessman, a college dropout who first tried his luck as a diamond trader before turning to coal, has become the world’s third-richest person.

The Times of India

Gates Foundation adds Gayle, Dhawan as independent trustees

As the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to expand its governance, it announced Thursday that it has added two trustees to its board

The Independent UK

Bill Gates Doesn't Want To Be Rich Anymore: 'I Will Move Down And Eventually Off Of The List Of The World's Richest People'

While Bill Gates may best be known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), he has been gaining prominence through the years for his philanthropy, opening the doors to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000.

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Bill Gates donates $20 billion to his foundation

Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates is donating $20 billion to the charitable foundation run by him and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates to boost its annual distributions.

Reuters

Google co-founder Sergey Brin seeks divorce, joining Gates and Bezos in split

Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder and world’s sixth-richest person, filed for a divorce from his wife of three years, making him the third mega-billionaire to do so in as many years.

Tribune News Service

Bill Gates: ‘Vaccines are a miracle. It’s mind-blowing somebody could say the opposite’

The Microsoft co-founder takes questions from scientists, academics and readers on Ukraine, Covid, Jeffrey Epstein and more

The Guardian - UK

Why did Bill Gates split from wife? Billionaire opens up about affair rumours

A year on from their divorce, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has opened up about his split from ex-wife Melinda, including admitting he 'caused pain' when asked about rumours of affairs during their marriage

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Bill Gates admits he ‘caused pain’ to Melinda when asked about cheating rumors

Bill Gates admitted to “causing a lot of pain to my family” exactly one year after he and Melinda French Gates announced they were divorcing following 27 years of marriage.

Tribune News Service

‘I caused pain’: Bill Gates responds to allegations of affair a year after divorce

Microsoft co-founder reflects on ‘a tough year’ after end of 27-year marriage to Melinda French Gates

The Guardian - US

Bill Gates says he would choose to marry Melinda ‘all over again’

The couple divorced in 2021

The Independent UK

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are backing $1 billion gender fund

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are among philanthropists donating money to the Gender Fund, which seeks to raise $1 billion to advance equality and women’s leadership in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Tribune News Service

Bill Gates' ex-wife claims his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was factor in split

Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates announced their decision to divorce on Twitter in May 2021. The couple were married for 27 years

Daily Mirror

Melinda French Gates says she is ‘friendly’ but not friends with Bill Gates

Billionaire says she gave ‘every single piece of myself’ to 27-year marriage to Microsoft co-founder and says many factors led to divorce

The Guardian - US

‘I couldn’t trust what we had’: Melinda Gates speaks out on divorce and her efforts to ‘forgive’ ex-Bill

Couple announced separation in May after 27 years of marriage

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The 50 biggest US donors gave or pledged nearly $28 billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates account for $15 billion of that total

The 50 Americans who gave or pledged the most to charity in 2021 committed to giving a total of US$27.7 billion to hospitals, universities, museums and more – up 12% from 2020 levels, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest annual tally of these donations.

The Independent UK

Melinda French Gates will no longer pledge bulk of wealth to Gates Foundation

Philanthropist has pledged to give $bn to her new organisation, Pivotal Ventures

The Guardian - US

Melinda French Gates to no longer give bulk of wealth via Gates Foundation

Billionaire, who divorced from Bill Gates last year, to seek ‘new partners, ideas and perspectives’ outside philanthropic foundation

Al Jazeera

Gates Foundation no longer centre of Melinda’s giving plans: WSJ

Melinda French Gates is no longer pledging to give away the lion’s share of her wealth to the Gates Foundation.

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The Times of India

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces governance change, appoints a new board of trustees

NEW DELHI: The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday appointed a board of trustees, naming four new members to help strengthen the foundation’s governance by inducting independent and diverse views against the backdrop of unprecedented global challenges.

The Independent UK

Gates Foundation expands board following Bill, Melinda split

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it will add four new members to its board of trustees

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