I welcome the Gates Foundation's announcement today. For far too long, world leaders have ignored the global tuberculosis epidemic, even as it causes millions of needless deaths each year.

Today we salute him as the most accomplished parliamentarian of his generation.

It is no longer about promises of aid tomorrow, it is about signing up today to concrete actions starting now to deliver for every child in the world the chance of education.

The world has come together.

July 30, 1966 will rank as one of the greatest World Cup finals and one of the great days in sporting history.

Let us move the IMF forward from its old role for an old world of sheltered national economies -- of addressing balance of payments problems -- to a new role in a world of global capital flows.