They met in 1980s when Melinda joined Bill's Microsoft firm. Together they have 3 children.
They have run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The organization has championed various causes including fighting infectious diseases and encouraging innoculations in children.
The Gates' - along with investor Warren Buffett - are behind the Giving Pledge, which calls on billionaires to commit to giving away the majority of their wealth to good causes.
According to Forbes, Bill Gates is at the number 4th spot when it comes to being wealthiest person in the world and his net worth is sitting at $124 billion.
He co-founded , Microsoft, the world's biggest software company in the 1970s that amassed him a fortune.
August is the month for two garden W’s: weeding and watering. Regular attention to both keeps a vegetable or flower garden pretty and productive well into autumn.
A prominent electronic music festival in British Columbia is postponing this year's virtual event after sexual misconduct allegations were made against one of its performers.
John McCall's great-grandfather was born in southern Ontario some 200 years ago, and ever since the descendents of his seven children, some living in Canada, some in the U.S, have criss-crossed the border with ease.
This was supposed to be the year of the comeback for Boysie Dikobe, a South African dancer recovering from his second hip replacement and gearing up to get back on stage when the coronavirus hit.
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