BERKSHIRE, UK: Funnyman Ricky Gervais has offered to donate £10,000 to charity if his fans ignore him on Twitter.com. The Office creator on Monday told his followers he was willing to make a donation to a good cause if they could resist the urge to ‘re-tweet’ his messages. He ...

CHARSADDA - Gunmen shot dead two workers of Al-Khidmat Foundation, a charity organization of Jamaat-e-Islami, involved in education project in Charsadda on Saturday.In charge of the education wing of the charity Al-Khidmat Foundation, Zakir Hussain, was killed along with his driver Khadim Shah, ...

A Swedish charity worker who was critically wounded in a gun attack in Lahore last week was flown home on Monday for specialist medical treatment, officials said.Bargeeta Almby, 72, was coming home from work when she was shot in the chest in Lahore.She was working in Lahore for the US-founded Full ...

WASHINGTON - A charity for US Navy SEALs says it will refuse any proceeds from a book by an ex-commando who took part in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, after the Pentagon threatened legal action against the author. The former Navy SEAL who wrote “No Easy Day,” Matt Bissonnette, ...

Angelina Jolie has credited her dedication to charity and humanitarian work with helping to keep her life on the right track.The In the Land of Blood and Honey writer and director admitted that while it can be easy to fall into a “shallow” Hollywood lifestyle, she has kept her sights on ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Pakistan Foreign Office Women Association Annual Charity Bazaar returned with the intriguing Mosaic of Global Cultures an extravaganza of cultural performances, native costumes and music, display of art & crafts and food delicacies from around the world. PFOWA hosted the lively ...

CATHERINE, the Duchess of Cambridge, is making discreet visits to several charities to decide which ones she wants to support, St Jamess Palace said Sunday. Since their April 29 wedding and tour of Canada and California, Kate and her husband Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, have kept a low ...

His master Darth Vader may have turned to the Dark Side, but one Stormtrooper has become a Force for Good, walking across Australia for charity. Paul Jacob French, from Melbourne, Victoria, is pictured on day five of his 2,500-mile (4,000km) journey from Perth to Sydney walking down Old Mandurah ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) A steak lunch at Smith & Wollensky in Manhattan starts at $36.50. The same lunch, eaten in the company of legendary investor Warren Buffett, costs approximately $2.63 million. That was the final result of the annual online charity auction for lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, ...

International singer Nelly Furtado plans to donate $1 million paid to her for a performance she gave exclusively to Libyas Muammar al-Gaddafis entourage to charity. The maneater star, who broke the news via her twitter account, said she sang for a Gaddafi event in 2007. In 2007, I received ...

POP superstar Shakira will be helping fans to raise a toast over the holidays after filming a TV advertisement for a Spanish company in exchange for a big donation to her charity. The Hips Dont Lie hitmaker shot the Freixenet cava promo in Barcelona and she admits she only agreed to the job after ...

LAHORE The Netherlands will play Pakistan during a special charity match for flood victims in Pakistan, it was announced on Wednesday. The Federation International Hockey Federation (FIH) said it fully supports the event organised by the Royal Dutch Hockey Association (KNHB) in association with ...

LAHORE (APP) - Prominent artist and social worker Jimmy Engineer said proceeds from the sale of prints of his selected major art work being exhibited in Lahore next month will go to charity. Making this announcement in a statement on Sunday, he said the charity will help special children, widows, ...

PUNE (India) Former Australian captain Steve Waugh is actively involved in charity work in India. However, Sharne Warne, who has been earning through playing the IPL matches in India, has no such immediate plan. This was revealed by leg-spinners brother Jason Warne. Jason Warne will be assisting ...

HAYDEN Panettiere thinks more celebrities should donate their time and money to charitable causes. The Heroes actress - who is involved with numerous charities - sees herself as an example for other young Hollywood residents to follow when it comes to highlighting aid work, good causes and making a ...

LAQUILA, Italy, (AFP) - More than 75,000 children will die during the three-day Group of Eight summit, the Save the Children charity said Wednesday as world leaders gathered for the talks in central Italy. It is outrageous that 9.2m children are still dying every year, said Adrian Lovett, Save the ...

ELEVEN of the worlds wealthiest people, including Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, met in secret a fortnight ago to discuss the future of philanthropy in light of the continued global economic crisis. Other attendees included Oprah Winfrey, the billionaire chat show host, Michael Bloomberg, mayor of ...

WASHINGTON - Former US President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation has received millions in contributions from foreign governments and business interests, including Indian, that are bound to have a stake in the policies that Hillary Rodham Clinton carries out as secretary of state, according to ...