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Bill Gates hails David Cameron's increase in UK aid budget - video

Microsoft founder Bill Gates applauds PM David Cameron's pledge to increase Britain's spending on foreign aid

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Vaccine funding: rich countries, led by Britain, to give additional £2.6bn

David Cameron pledges £814m to help prevent 1.4 million dying from preventable conditions such as pneumonia and diarrhoeaRich countries, led by Britain, have pledged £2.6bn to a fund to pay for...

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Bill Gates: Vaccine funds must be targeted at the poorest

In an interview with the Guardian, Bill Gates make the case for where and how Gavi funds are spentMicrosoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates dismissed suggestions that money pledged to the Global...

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Britain pledges over £800m for vaccines for children in poorer nations

Announcement comes at fundraising conference which raised £2.6bn for Global Alliance for Vaccines and ImmunisationDavid Cameron has promised £814m for vaccines for children in poor countries at a...

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Move over Bill Gates: Gina Rinehart could soon be the world's richest person

The Australian mining mogul inherited her business as a widow with four children and has been amassing a fortune ever sinceThe visage of a geeky-looking Bill Gates is as familiar to us as our own...

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Bill Gates sells 5m shares in Microsoft

Software giant's founder has sold 90m shares in 12 months, but still has 500m; cash goes to help his foundation's charitable workBill Gates has sold another 5 million of his Microsoft shares, according...

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Apple's rise continues but few others are getting a bite

Steve Jobs and co have created an economy in which only Apple gets really richHow things change. Once upon a time, Microsoft was the Evil Empire. But now Microsoft is middle-aged, respectable and,...

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Bill Gates backs Robin Hood tax on bank trades

Miocrosoft founder to tell G20 to back the tax which could raise $48bn a year for aid and developmentBill Gates is throwing his weight behind French efforts to put a small tax on financial trades as a...

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A Robin Hood tax could turn the banks from villains to heroes | Bill Nighy

An EU-wide Robin Hood tax is close to becoming reality. Cameron must now tell the City to get on boardIt's a script that even Hollywood might have balked at. In the midst of the worst economic crisis...

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Letters: Backing for a Robin Hood tax

If Ed Miliband wants to practice what he preaches he should fully support José Manuel Borroso's call for a financial transactions tax (Analysis, 29 September). Banks have become more powerful than...

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Bill Gates, book reviewer

The Microsoft mogul has taken to literary criticism, but isn't quite so world-beating with wordsBill Gates: founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, computer whizz – and now book reviewer. On Wednesday,...

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Steve's bio: a personal perspective

The arc of Steve Jobs's life is the stuff of legends, but his new biography forces us to stare at the realities of the actual manLet me jump to the conclusion: This is an extraordinary book on many...

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G20: Bill Gates adds his weight to calls for Robin Hood tax

Financial transaction tax could raise £30bn to fight poverty, Gates will tell leadersBill Gates will tell the G20 group of developed and developing countries on Thursday that they could raise an extra...

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Bill Gates's G20 speech made a lot of sense, but why ignore capital flight?

Gates stressed the importance of technology, transparency and finance, but overlooked an issue central to development's futureBill Gates has just given a long-awaited speech to G20 leaders in Cannes on...

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Bill Gates gets poor marks for ignoring education

G20 summit was a missed opportunity to put education in the poorest countries at the top of development prioritiesYou've got to hand it to Bill Gates. The eurozone might be going up in smoke, financial...

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Bill Gates and China in discussions over new nuclear reactor

The Microsoft co-founder has confirmed plans to jointly develop a new nuclear reactor, which can run on depleted uraniumMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday he is in discussions with...

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The business plan to stop ecocide | Juliette Jowit

Nature is under constant attack from corporate forces. But Polly Higgins wants to find a capitalist to fight for the environmentWilliam Wilberforce is popularly credited with the abolition of slavery....

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US journalists on the rich list

One of the great divides in the United States is between the 1% who supposedly form the very rich and the other 99%.I say supposedly because the 1% itself covers a vast range of wealth from the...

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Economic crisis mustn't eclipse battle against poverty, says Bill Gates

Philanthropist urges investment in agriculture and health as he outlines his vision for tackling poverty in the developing worldBill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, has urged...

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Bill Gates tells Davos 'economic crisis is not an excuse for cutting aid'

Microsoft co-founder pledges $750m to the Global Fund to fight aids, TB and malaria and dismisses claims of fund misuseBills Gates has pledged $750m (£478m) to the troubled Global Fund – which fights...

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