MacKenzie Scott
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $2.1 billion in the past year, bringing her total reported giving to more than $16 billion since 2019.
While previous announcements have included detailed essays about the reasons for her donations, Ms Scott offered only a three-sentence post titled, “Giving Update this year”.
“Excited to call attention to these 360 outstanding organisations, every one of whom could use more allies,” she said in the post.
“Inspired by all the ways people work together to offer each other goodwill and support.”
The gifts include three donations of $25 million to affordable housing non-profit Mercy Housing, reproductive care organisation Upstream USA and youth training group Year Up, according to her Yield Giving website.
It is not known if those are the largest donations made in the past year as the database of gifts on the website withheld the amount donated to more than 100 of the recipients throughout 2023, with the explanation, “Disclosure delayed for benefit of recipient”.
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The gifts were consistent with Ms Scott's focus on economic security, education, equity and health, although there were many in this round that went to organisations that describe themselves as working on health.
Ms Scott, who has a net worth of $34.8 billion and is the world's 39th richest person, also supported several organisations that work on caste equity.
As in previous years, a significant portion of Ms Scott's donations in 2023 focused on housing organisations, including community land trusts, advocates for affordable housing and legal aid societies, which often represent tenants among other clients.
Ms Scott declines to comment on her donations, which often are the largest a non-profit group has received, beyond blog posts, now published on her website, which she launched last December.
For the first time, in March, she opened an application process to receive funding, promising to grant $1 million to 250 organisations. About 6,300 non-profit groups applied, according to Lever for Change, the organisation overseeing the application process, which has said it will announce the winners early next year.
Ms Scott has promised to give away more than half of her wealth, which comes largely from her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Ms Scott’s giving is “unprecedented” because she provides “meaningfully sized” donations to groups without any restrictions, according to a Centre for Effective Philanthropy report released last month.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, who moved to Texas during the pandemic, is planning to start a university in Austin, according to tax filings for the billionaire’s latest charity called The Foundation.
The new institution, seeded with a roughly $100 million gift from Mr Musk, will start with a Stem-focused primary and secondary school.
Once up and running, it “intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels”, according to an application to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status obtained by Bloomberg.
The university will employ “experienced faculty” and feature a traditional curriculum “alongside hands-on learning experience including simulations, case studies, fabrication/design projects and labs”, according to the application, which was filed in October 2022 and approved in March.
This is not the first time Mr Musk, 52, has started a school or expressed interest in opening a university.
About a decade ago, the Tesla chief executive created Ad Astra on SpaceX’s California campus for five of his children and a few children of his space company’s employees. When Mr Musk moved to Texas in 2020, the school also moved.
Mr Musk’s new Stem school was expecting an initial class of 50 and aimed to hire an executive director, teacher and administrator, the application said.
Foundation trustees include Jared Birchall, head of Mr Musk’s family office; Steven Chidester, a tax lawyer at Withersworldwide; and Ronald Gong and Teresa Holland, who work at the Catalyst Family Office in California.
The billionaire sent $2.2 billion worth of Tesla stock to his Musk Foundation last year.
Along with donating about $100 million to seed his newest charity, it also made gifts to disaster relief non-profit World Central Kitchen, the Khan Academy and a donor-advised fund at Fidelity Charitable, according to its most recent tax forms.
Mr Musk, the world’s richest person with a net worth of $222 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is also creating his own town outside Austin, with recreational amenities, a school and subsidised housing for employees of Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company, The Wall Street Journal reported in March.
If approved, the municipality would occupy thousands of hectares he has acquired in recent years.
Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff’s cash pile grows a bit every day, thanks to a unique selling strategy unlike any other billionaire tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Since July, the Salesforce co-founder has been selling 15,000 shares of the software company’s stock – about $3 million worth – almost daily.
Including a smaller selling streak earlier in the year, Mr Benioff has unloaded more than $475 million worth of shares in 170 or so transactions.
His strategy of taking a little bit off the table every day dates to soon after Salesforce’s 2004 initial public offering, with Mr Benioff making more than 200 sales the following year, records show.
He has continued the strategy since, which, according to him, helps to fund charitable gifts to paediatric hospitals, public schools and medical research, among others.
“Business is the greatest platform for change,” Mr Benioff, 59, said in a text message when asked about the stock sales.
“This is why I love business because you can use it to improve the state of the world. That’s also why I love philanthropy.”
He also highlighted his ownership of Time magazine, a publication he purchased for $190 million in 2018.
Other billionaires vary their stock liquidation approaches, from disposing of large blocks to taking years off from selling.
Meta Platforms' Mark Zuckerberg unloaded $185 million worth of shares in a series of transactions in November, his first sales in two years, while Mr Bezos has not sold any shares since disposing of more than $20 billion worth in 2020 and 2021.
Mr Benioff’s fortune has grown by more than 55 per cent in 2023 to $9.3 billion, according to Bloomberg.
He owns roughly 2.5 per cent of the San Francisco-based company he founded in 1999, which makes up about two thirds of his fortune with the balance in cash and other assets.
Carlos Slim
Mexican telecoms mogul Carlos Slim’s fortune has passed the $100 billion mark for the first time, a dozen years after he was crowned the wealthiest person in the world.
While the magnate has made few major overhauls of his portfolio in recent years, he is riding the “super peso”, the result of a surge of about 14 per cent in the Mexican currency against the US dollar this year.
Mr Slim, 83, whose Lebanese parents emigrated to Mexico in 1902, has added about $27 billion to his fortune in 2023 – including $3 billion on Thursday – to increase his lead as the richest Latin American, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Overall, he has slipped in the global ranking to 11th as technology founders have largely taken over the top spots.
The bulk of Mr Slim’s $101.5 billion fortune comes from telecoms company America Movil, which collects about 40 per cent of its revenue in Mexican pesos and also has exposure to the euro from its operations in Austria.
Shares in Mr Slim’s Grupo Carso company, which does everything from construction to operating restaurants and shops, have soared 109 per cent this year and are the best performing in Mexico’s benchmark index.
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Skewed figures
In the village of Mevagissey in southwest England the housing stock has doubled in the last century while the number of residents is half the historic high. The village's Neighbourhood Development Plan states that 26% of homes are holiday retreats. Prices are high, averaging around £300,000, £50,000 more than the Cornish average of £250,000. The local average wage is £15,458.
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Key findings of Jenkins report
- Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, "accepted the political utility of violence"
- Views of key Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, have “consistently been understood” as permitting “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” and “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
- Muslim Brotherhood at all levels has repeatedly defended Hamas attacks against Israel, including the use of suicide bombers and the killing of civilians.
- Laying out the report in the House of Commons, David Cameron told MPs: "The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism."
In numbers: China in Dubai
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Number of Chinese people in International City: Almost 50,000
Daily visitors to Dragon Mart in 2018/19: 120,000
Daily visitors to Dragon Mart in 2010: 20,000
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Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
At a glance
Global events: Much of the UK’s economic woes were blamed on “increased global uncertainty”, which can be interpreted as the economic impact of the Ukraine war and the uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Growth forecasts: Cut for 2025 from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The OBR watchdog also estimated inflation will average 3.2 per cent this year
Welfare: Universal credit health element cut by 50 per cent and frozen for new claimants, building on cuts to the disability and incapacity bill set out earlier this month
Spending cuts: Overall day-to day-spending across government cut by £6.1bn in 2029-30
Tax evasion: Steps to crack down on tax evasion to raise “£6.5bn per year” for the public purse
Defence: New high-tech weaponry, upgrading HM Naval Base in Portsmouth
Housing: Housebuilding to reach its highest in 40 years, with planning reforms helping generate an extra £3.4bn for public finances
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Rating: 5/5
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Dubai works towards better air quality by 2021
Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.
“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.
“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.
“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.
“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.
“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.
“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.
“A hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.”
WandaVision
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany
Directed by: Matt Shakman
Rating: Four stars
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Analysis
Members of Syria's Alawite minority community face threat in their heartland after one of the deadliest days in country’s recent history. Read more
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The specs
Engine: 4.0-litre V8 twin-turbocharged and three electric motors
Power: Combined output 920hp
Torque: 730Nm at 4,000-7,000rpm
Transmission: 8-speed dual-clutch automatic
Fuel consumption: 11.2L/100km
On sale: Now, deliveries expected later in 2025
Price: expected to start at Dh1,432,000
Killing of Qassem Suleimani
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Key facilities
- Olympic-size swimming pool with a split bulkhead for multi-use configurations, including water polo and 50m/25m training lanes
- Premier League-standard football pitch
- 400m Olympic running track
- NBA-spec basketball court with auditorium
- 600-seat auditorium
- Spaces for historical and cultural exploration
- An elevated football field that doubles as a helipad
- Specialist robotics and science laboratories
- AR and VR-enabled learning centres
- Disruption Lab and Research Centre for developing entrepreneurial skills
The 12 Syrian entities delisted by UK
Ministry of Interior
Ministry of Defence
General Intelligence Directorate
Air Force Intelligence Agency
Political Security Directorate
Syrian National Security Bureau
Military Intelligence Directorate
Army Supply Bureau
General Organisation of Radio and TV
Al Watan newspaper
Cham Press TV
Sama TV
Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
Cricket World Cup League Two
Teams
Oman, UAE, Namibia
Al Amerat, Muscat
Results
Oman beat UAE by five wickets
UAE beat Namibia by eight runs
Namibia beat Oman by 52 runs
UAE beat Namibia by eight wickets
Fixtures
Saturday January 11 - UAE v Oman
Sunday January 12 – Oman v Namibia
Brief scores:
QPR 0
Watford 1
Capoue 45' 1
AI traffic lights to ease congestion at seven points to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Street
The seven points are:
Shakhbout bin Sultan Street
Dhafeer Street
Hadbat Al Ghubainah Street (outbound)
Salama bint Butti Street
Al Dhafra Street
Rabdan Street
Umm Yifina Street exit (inbound)
Specs
Engine: Duel electric motors
Power: 659hp
Torque: 1075Nm
On sale: Available for pre-order now
Price: On request
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