Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda say their foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries. Bill Gates said in a statement issued on the sidelines of the World ...

Innovation can turn the world's foreboding future bright, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Monday in an annual letter from a charity foundation he runs with his wife and father. "If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without innovation in health, education, energy, or food, the picture is quite bleak," said Gates. "Society under ...

The needs of the poor are greater than the money available to help them, but that's not enough to discourage Bill Gates in his work as co-chair of the world's largest charitable foundation. In his second annual letter, issued Monday, Gates says investment ...