Gates Foundation makes contingency plans for break-up
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Results from US stronger than those from sites in Latin America and South Africa
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Facebook investors lodge protest vote against board
Rebellion from ordinary shareholders targets Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg
Jeff Bezos moved into philanthropy with a single tweet - followed by 42,000 more
Denis O’Brien offers advice to Amazon founder on how best to help people ‘right now’
Another Life: Fun for everyone with synthetic biology
Syn-bio provides cheap, standardised, off-the-shelf ‘bricks’ of DNA that build new forms of organism. But many fear it could get out of control
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sues Petrobras
Unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers is also being sued over a multibillion-dollar bribery scandal that knocked tens of billions of dollars off the Brazilian oil giant’s market value.
Regulator and new website will help make charities more transparent
‘In Ireland some commentators claim philanthropy has an unhealthy influence on public policy decisions. This is more paranoia than reality’
Women ‘cannot afford more effective contraceptives’
Recession and high price of contraception sees rise in less reliable withdrawal method
World’s poorest countries will be ‘richer than China is now’ by 2035
Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, decries naysayers who claim world is getting worse
Gilmore to meet Ban Ki-Moon at UN in New York
Tánaiste arrives in US for five day visit in which he will discuss Syria and immigration reform
Numbers add up for online academy
A hedge-fund analyst’s online lessons for his family have grown into a global school
Failed insulin drug technology may play key role in stemming maternal mortality
Companies working to deliver oxytocin by inhaler in Africa where one in 10 women suffer excessive bleeding after childbirth
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