Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson on Wednesday said he hopes a concert in Colombia aimed at raising money for crisis-wracked Venezuela will encourage the country's soldiers to defy orders from President Nicolas Maduro and let humanitarian aid cross the border.

Billionaire Richard Branson hopes aid concert opens Venezuela's borders

British billionaire Richard Branson plans to travel to space within the next four or five months aboard his own Virgin Galactic spaceship, he told AFP Thursday. "My wish is to go up on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, that's what we're working on," the head of the Virgin group said on the sidelines of an event to honor Virgin Galactic at the Air and Space Museum in Washington.

Virgin Group's Richard Branson says he'll fly to space by July

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reaches space for first time

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew higher than it ever has before on Thursday, surpassing what the US Air Force considers the boundary of space, and marking the first manned flight to space from US soil since 2011.

Thumbs up for astronauts: Branson on Virgin Galactic's voyage into space

IMF cuts China's growth rate on 'negative effect of tariff actions' As the Trump administration turns the heat on China in the trade war, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut China's growth citing "negative effect of recent tariff actions".

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Virgin Galatic owner and British entrepreneur Richard Branson said he expects his rocket company to launch a space flight "within weeks, not months". Also Read: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to be SpaceX Moon traveller "We will be in space with people not too long after that," he added.

Virgin Galatic space flight within weeks, not months: Richard Branson

The accident occurred when Richard Branson was cycling with his children and hit a bump on a road in the British Virgin Islands

I thought I was about to die, says Virgin CEO Branson after bike accident

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