A record 2.3 million visitors toured former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau last year, the museum said on Tuesday, as the site gears up to mark 75 years since its last prisoners were freed.

Record 2.3 million people visited Auschwitz in 2019

International donors pledged $14 billion to fight diseases including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on Thursday (October 10) at a Global Fund summit in the French city of Lyon.

International donors pledge $14 bln to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at Lyon summit

PM Modi honoured by Gates Foundation for 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, dedicates award to Indians. Watch video to know more.

PM Modi honoured by Gates Foundation for 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, dedicates award to Indians

Jack Ma steps down next week as chairman of Alibaba, but the start-up he built into an online retail behemoth is expected to keep thriving into a new era thanks to a culture of innovation he helped nurture.

Smooth succession: Jack Ma to step down as Alibaba's chairman next week

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's second-richest person. French billionaire Bernard Arnault, the CEO of luxury goods maker LVMH (LVMHF), overtook Gates on Tuesday on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault topples Bill Gates as world’s second richest person

Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019, with Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserting that the incumbent government will soon bring a comprehensive law on the data protection.

Rajya Sabha passes Aadhaar Bill, government says will bring comprehensive law on data protection

Microsoft missed its chance to be the dominant firm in mobile technology because it was "distracted" during a lengthy antitrust battle with US authorities, company co-founder Bill Gates said Monday.

Microsoft missed mobile dominance by 'tiny' margin: Bill Gates

US, China top billionaires list; India ranked fourth behind Germany: Forbes

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, finalised the biggest divorce settlement in history on Thursday, leaving him with 75 per cent of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly $36 billion in shares.

After divorce settlement, MacKenzie Bezos becomes third richest woman in the world

Local Afghan Taliban leaders are hindering global efforts to end polio, but Afghanistan and Pakistan must continue their fight to "get to zero" cases, the philanthropist Bill Gates said on Monday.

Bill Gates urges Afghanistan and Pakistan to 'get to zero' in polio fight

Jeff Bezos remains the world's richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra wealthy, while far behind President Donald Trump jumped 51 spots in the ranking.

Bezos, Gates and Buffett still top the world's ultra rich: Forbes

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan hit back his detractors for mocking his proposal to provide eggs and chicken to rural women as part of his government's poverty alleviation programme, saying 'colonised minds' criticise him for the idea but will praise 'wilayatis' (foreigners) for the similar concept.

Opposition mocks Pak PM for his poultry-based poverty alleviation programme, Imran Khan hits back 

As one of the world's richest men and most active philanthropists, Bill Gates usually has his hands full. Just not with poop. So it came as a surprise when the founder of Microsoft brandished a jar of human waste at a forum on the future of the toilet in Beijing on Tuesday.

Watch: Poop in hand, Bill Gates backs China's toilet revolution

Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in the 1970s and later went on to become an investor, philanthropist and sports team owner, died Monday after his latest battle with cancer at age 65.

Paul Allen: Technologist, philathropist who persuaded Bill Gates to create Microsoft

Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for improving sanitation in the country through the Swachh Bharat mission, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said now is the time to build on the success of the movement.

Now is the time to build on Swachh Bharat's success: Bill Gates

Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, revealed on Monday he is in a new battle with cancer. Allen said in a tweet and at his website that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma he fought into remission nine years ago has returned.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen battles cancer anew

Appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' campaign along with the socio-economic reforms, Mr Gates said that digitisation can help monitor quality and eventually help the education system

Technology can help India leapfrog into inclusive growth: Bill Gates

The Microsoft founder added that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded the World Bank to take Aadhaar to other countries since it is worth emulating

Aadhaar does not pose any privacy issue: Bill Gates

In the wake of antibiotic resistance and a constant birth of new pathogens, Gates stressed the need for the Trump administration to identify the healthcare arsenal that the country sits

Bill Gates wants Trump administration to brace for global pandemic

The cause of such collaboration is to raise money for underprivileged children in Africa so as to empower them by providing educational facilities

Watch: Bill Gates teams up with Roger Federer for tennis match

Bezos is currently worth a whopping $105 bn, thanks to the skyrocketing value of Amazon shares

Forget Bitcoin millionaires; Bezos, Gates may become trillionaires

WION morning news brief, December 20, 2017

Gates listed the film as one of the inspirational stories of 2017.

Akshay Kumar's Toilet Ek Prem Katha gets a thumbs up from Bill Gates for being inspirational

Amazon shares went up 2% this week due to Black Friday sales

World's richest man Jeff Bezos now worth $100 billion

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