Exclusive: Gates Foundation Ends $5 Million Pledge Partnership With Saudi Crown Prince's Charity Over Khashoggi Killing

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will end its commitment to partner with a charity in Saudi Arabia closely aligned with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmanin light of the still-unanswered questions about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a former loyalist murdered while in exile.

The Gates’ organization had pledged $5 million towards a new program, Misk Grand Challenges, along with the Misk Foundation, a group that promotes youth empowerment worldwide, and which is chaired by the prince. A large photo of the crown prince appears on the site’s home page.

The Gates Foundation said in a statement provided to Fortune, “Jamal Khashoggi’s abduction and murder is extremely troubling. We are observing current events with concern, and we do not plan to fund any subsequent rounds of the Misk Grand Challenges program.”

#BillionaireCostume, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Dress up as King Arthur And Merlin to Celebrate Halloween

This is what you get, whentwo of the richest men in the world decide to dress up for Halloween.

Bill Gates And Warren Buffett Dress Up As King Arthur And Merlin To Celebrate Halloween

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Microsoft founder, Bill Gates Says Trump Asked Him About the Difference Between HIV and HPV

Common Core creator Bill Gates says President Donald Trump asked him if the HIV and HPV viruses were the same. Gates revealed conversations he had with Trump in a video clip obtained by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

During a recent staff meeting of his Gates foundation, Gates said he managed to avoid being in the same place with Trump — who then got elected president.

“There was a thing where he and I were at the same place before the election and I avoided him,” Gates told his co-workers. “Then he got elected. So then I went to see him in December.

Gates said Trump first asked about his 22-year-old daughter, who is an experienced equestrian.

“He knew my daughter, Jennifer, because Trump has this horse show thing down in Florida. Anyway, so when I first talked to him it was actually kind of scary how much he knew about my daughter’s appearance. [Gates’ wife] Melinda did not like that too well.”

During meetings at Trump Tower, Gates, who forced Common Core on American schoolchildren, says he urged Trump to become a leader in science and innovation, probably to advance HIV research.

“In both of those two meetings he asked me if vaccines weren’t a bad thing because he was considering a commission to look into ill-effects of vaccines, and I said, ‘No, that is a dead end, that would be a bad thing, do not do that.’”

Gates added: “Both times he wanted to know the difference between HIV and HPV and so I was able to explain that those are things that are rarely confused with each other.”

Bill Gates to attend the wedding of Aliko Dangote’s daughter, Fatima as she marries Jamil, son of former Police IG, MD Abubakar

A mega wedding, maybe even the mother of all weddings is coming up in March 2018 at the prestigious Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos.

It's the union of Fatima Dangote and Jamil Abubakar.

The wedding of Fatima, the daughter of Africa’s richest billionaire,Aliko Dangote and Jamil, the pilot son of former Inspector General (IG) of Police, MD Abubakar will bring together the high and mighty in Nigeria and from around the world.

According to reports, about five presidents in the world and all the past presidents of Nigeria are billed to attend the wedding as well as world’s renowned billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft boss,Bill Gate, has confirmed his intent to attend the wedding.

Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos now the Richest Person in the World

There is a new name at the top of the world wealth league. The founder of Amazon has overtaken Microsoft’s Bill Gates to claim the title of world’s richest person. Jeff Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has been the richest man on the planet since 2013, after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due later on Thursday.

According to a real-time billionaires index compiled by Forbes, the rise pushed the value of Bezos’s fortune to $91bn (£69bn) – compared with Gates’ wealth of $90bn. Their riches are calculated on the share prices of their respective companies and at the current values, Bezos’s stake is twice as big as the carmarker Ford.

Bezos – born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico – keeps a relatively low profile, but has used some of the wealth he has amassed to buy the Washington Post and invest in space travel through Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000.He founded Amazon in 1994 when he sold books from his garage in Seattle before expanding into a huge range of other products and capturing the global rush to shop online. Amazon now accounts for 43% of everything sold online in the US and 64 million people have signed up for its Prime service, which gives access to free deliveriesand video streaming.

Amazon shares have soared this year, making the company worth more than $500bn and boosting Bezos’s wealth as he owns 17% of the company. He also has a number of other investments, including in Google, Uber, Twitter and Airbnb, worth more than $5bn.At the start of 2017, Bezos was ranked fourth-richest in the world, behind Gates, the investor Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega, who founded Inditex, the company behindretailer Zara.