Bill Gates is one of the world’s richest people, earning about €328 per second.

Being handed a diagnosis of lethal cancer together with the promise that it will radically shorten your life rarely provokes — in the person hearing the deadly prognosis — the desire to be funny.

US president Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has maintained his innocence over new charges that he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money laundering conspiracy.

The first item was our equivalent of a Korr pasta packet.

The special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 US election has charged an attorney with lying to federal investigators about his interactions with a former Trump campaign official.

US special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors have filed a new charge against a man they claim lied to federal investigators in the Russia election interference probe.

It is easy to dismiss the idea of billionaires’ philanthropy where the plutocrats rather than governments get to decide how funds are used. Despite that almost begrudging view, the benefits of such generosity cannot be denied.

Google is willing to pay more tax globally says its chief executive Sundar Pichai, said at the World Economic Forum, as talk was on the tone of the “America First” speech that US president Donald Trump will deliver at the Davos summit in Switzerland.

Special counsel Robert Mueller believes it will take three weeks to present a case against former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, according to court documents.

US president Donald Trump's former campaign chairman - who is accused of multiple financial crimes - has attacked the strength of the evidence against him, saying the case is "embellished".

Here is a summary of the charges in the 31-page indictment and the potential penalties.

With the US and Europe rolling back their foreign aid commitments,only China can fill the vacuum, say Asit K Biswas and Kris Hartley.

Hundreds of people have attended a rally in solidarity with probation officers threatened by dissident republicans.

Some of the best events for all the family this week, compiled by Colette Keane

As Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos jockey for the designation of world’s wealthiest man, the Seattle billionaires are united behind at least one local venture. They’re both investors in a trucking logistics startup that competes with Uber.

This is the 25th date on the 51 date anniversary tour which finishes in Brazil in October.

A tax on robots is a tax on the business that invested in them, writes Brian Keegan

The couple met while they were both starring in a touring production of Legally Blonde and began dating in 2013.

Some predicted a win for Trump would spook the markets but Tom Metcalf and Jack Witzig found the prospect of a businessman in the White House just helped the rich grow richer.

The head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde yesterday warned the UK of the risks of leaving the EU and said there was a clear economic argument for remaining part of the bloc.

This best of this week’s new films in Irish cinemas.

A financial TV show is hijacked by an investor who lost everything.

Donald Trump has once again made his income and wealth objects of fascination and confusion in the US 2016 presidential race, this time, by filing an updated personal financial disclosure form with the Federal Election Commission.

Hillary Clinton’s tough talk isn’t just talk. Throughout her career as a senator and US secretary of state, she displayed instincts on foreign policy that are far more aggressive than those of President Barrack Obama or any Democrat, writes Mark Landler.

An 18-year-old woman live-streamed the rape of her 17-year-old friend by a man with whom she had been drinking, a prosecutor has said in announcing a rape and kidnapping indictment.

FACEBOOK boss, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gone bonkers and given away all his wealth — $45bn (€41.37bn) on paper — to a foundation he has set up along with his wife, Priscilla Chan.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife’s pledge to give away virtually all of their $45bn (€42.5bn) in Facebook shares, has set a new philanthropic benchmark by committing their massive fortune to charitable causes while still in their early 30s.

Wexford’s Katie Fitzhenry is confident that Ireland can progress from their group at this weekend’s global women’s rugby sevens tournament in UCD.

Paralysed jockeys and rugby players will be amongst the first to benefit from using an exoskeleton suit which has been purchased by a horseracing charity.

ON the morning I was to be married for the second time, I found myself going to my knees in the shower and praying: that my ex-husband would find love again ...” 

Ben Affleck has expressed regret for asking the makers of a discover-your-past television show to exclude the fact that he had a slave-owning ancestor.

Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series Finding Your Roots not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the programme.

Residents living near Croke Park in Dublin say they are being kept in the dark about plans to host concerts at the stadium during the summer.

Bill Gates through the Gates Foundation has helped fund the Omniprocessor project - a machine which turns human waste into water and electricity.

Would you drink a glass of water extracted from human waste? If it’s good enough for one of the world’s richest men...

It’s the time of year when many gardeners are cleaning out their plots and digging them over. 

A coalition of companies and aid groups will test experimental drugs and collect blood plasma from Ebola survivors to treat new victims of the disease in West Africa.

LIFE IN LEGO

Over the next month, two of President Barack Obama’s closest first-term advisers will spill insider details on the administration’s handling of the early days of the Great Recession, the White House’s cautious response to the Syrian civil war and the genesis of clandestine talks with Iran.

Your daily, spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box.