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  Bill Gates (left) and Warren Buffett speak at an event organized by Columbia Business School in January 2017. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Credit their innovations, the “Trump Bump” or just plain luck: America’s wealthiest people are getting even richer. Since January 1, the country’s five richest people have added a combined $66.8 billion to their personal fortunes. Four of those individuals—Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison—are founders of iconic technology firms. The last is legendary value investor Warren Buffett.

      hare Image copyright PA Image caption Channel 4 is due to broadcast the tapes almost 20 years after Princess Diana's death Friends of Princess Diana have urged Channel 4 not to broadcast controversial video tapes of her talking about her troubled marriage. The documentary, Diana: In Her Own Words, is due to be aired ahead of the 20th anniversary of her death

  Image copyright AFP Image caption Ronaldo could potentially be jailed for three-and-a-half years if found guilty, experts say Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has appeared at a Spanish court where he was facing allegations he evaded millions in tax. Prosecutors accuse Ronaldo, reported to be the world's highest paid athlete, of evading €14.7m ($17.3m; £13.1m) in tax. He had been expected to make a statement after the pre-trial hearing, but left without saying a word.

Son, daughter-in-law of former New Jersey mayor jump to their deaths, reports say Glenn and Patricia Scarpelli committed suicide Friday morning, according to reports File Facebook Twitter Email Aa BRICK, N.J. — The son and daughter-in-law of former Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli  committed suicide  early Friday morning by jumping from a Manhattan office building, according to the  New York Post  and  Brick Shorebeat . Glenn and Patricia Scarpelli, ages 53 and 50, respectively, left behind a suicide note titled: “WE HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE,” but went onto explain in the letter that they were in a “financial spiral” and could no longer live with that reality, according to the New York Post article.

Born-again Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has shown how radical she is for Jesus Christ. The mother of one took to her Instagram page to pray for her fans and to also speak in tongues! She captioned the video: "Just imagine the POWER that would be incubated in words reeling out of the mouth of the uncreated creator! The very one who spoke you into existence and

    My guess: a member of the InfiLaw System, the consortium of law schools owned by the private-equity company Sterling Partners. Over at the ABA Journal, Stephanie Francis Ward takes a  deep dive  into the problems facing legal education today, and InfiLaw stands front and center. We’ve chronicled the misfortunes of the InfiLaw institutions in great detail in these pages. But if you haven’t been following along, Ward’s piece — titled “Charlotte School of Law not alone in facing an uncertain future,” where “uncertain future” is a nice euphemism for “deep doo-doo” — nicely summaizes the different disastrous developments at the various schools (which can be tough to track because, well, there seems to be a new one every month). The story begins with the sad tale of Barbara Strang, a 2015 graduate of Charlotte School of Law who hasn’t passed the bar exam yet and who owes more than $200,000 in law student loans. For her, the demise of CSL would be a mercy:...

- The first black person to chair the American Board of Internal Medicine cardiovascular disease board is Nigerian - The Nigerian doctor, Olakunle Akinboboye, is an alumnus of the University of Ibadan - He will now be responsible for certifying all deserving cardiologists in the United States For the first time, since its inception, 81 years ago, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has appointed a black person as head of its cardiovascular disease board. And not only is he black, he is also a Nigerian doctor. Dr Olakunle Akinboboye, as chair of the board, will now be in charge of certifying cardiologists in the United States. The board which has 12 members across the United States will be headed by Dr Akinboboye, who will also have to carry out periodic knowledge

Video This week the world’s elite hackers are gathering in Las Vegas for Def Con, the largest underground hacking event of the year. At the show, a team of hackers has created a cheap robot capable of cracking into a leading-brand safe.

  Jump to media player Media player Video US President Donald Trump appeared to support police brutality towards those suspected of crimes during his remarks to police officers outside New York City on Friday.

  Media caption 'We have to blame Republican leadership' Hollywood script-writers couldn't have staged it any better. At roughly 1:30 on Friday morning, John McCain approached the dais on the floor of the Senate. Votes on the latest Republican healthcare reform plan had mostly been recorded, and it was clear that the Arizona senator would be the difference between success and failure. Mr McCain held his right arm out, palm down. It was his good arm, the one not crippled by the plane crash in Vietnam that left him a prisoner of war for more than five years.

  Media caption Trump praises Priebus after announcing his departure US President Donald Trump has named General John Kelly, who currently heads the Department of Homeland Security, as his next chief of staff. The announcement, made on Twitter on Friday afternoon, removes Reince Priebus from the role. The embattled former chief of staff had faced pressure since being named as a possible leaker by Mr Trump's newly appointed director of communication.

  Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Email Show share tools Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Email Show share tools George Clooney is threatening to sue a French magazine for publishing photos of his twins. The actor said in a statement: "Over the last week photographers from Voici magazine scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home." Voici printed the pictures on Friday, claiming they were the first images of Ella and Alexander .

  Image copyright GETTY IMAGES Image caption Police said the suspected knife attacker was cornered and overpowered by members of the public The man who killed one person and injured six in a supermarket knife attack in Hamburg was a "known Islamist", police say. "He was known as an Islamist but not a jihadist," police spokesman Andy Grote said, noting that the suspect also suffered from "psychological" issues. The man, a failed asylum seeker born in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), attacked customers at random on Friday. Police said he acted alone and he was overpowered by passers-by. The 26-year-old man, identified as Ahmad A, is a Palestinian from the UAE who is registered on an Islamist database, Mr Grote said on Saturday. The attacker, who arrived in Germany in 2015 but could not be deported because he had no identification papers, was also suffering from mental health problems, officials said.

  Media caption North Korea missile "seen from Japan" North Korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), describing it as a "stern warning" for the US. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test proved that the entire US was within striking range, state media reported. However, experts say many of North Korea's missiles cannot accurately hit targets. The launch came three weeks after North Korea's first ICBM test. The Pentagon said the latest missile was launched at 23:41 (15:41 GMT) from an arms plant in Jagang province in the north of the country. North Korea said the ICBM flew for just over 47 minutes and reached an altitude of 3,724km (2,300 miles). It is unusual for North Korea to launch a missile at night - the significance is as yet unclear. This is the first missile fired from Jagang province, indicating a previously-unknown launch site is operational. The t...