Actress Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to Afghanistan this week to meet refugees in the war-torn country.
Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie has flown down to Libya to help aid agencies bring in supplies to the country.
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the newly appointed United Nations goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS, says she does not want to be just a 'poster girl' for the organisation but will help break social barriers and stigmas that are attached with the disease.
World champion footballers and United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors Ronaldo and Zindine Zidane have announced that the 8th Annual Match Against Poverty will raise funds for the nearly 25 million people affected by the Haiti earthquake and Pakistan floods.
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who is on bail in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on Thursday got the Supreme Court's permission to extend his foreign visit by two weeks to fulfil his commitments as United Nations' Goodwill Ambassador on malnutrition.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, out on bail in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was on Wednesday allowed by the Supreme Court to go abroad to fulfill his commitments as United Nations' goodwill ambassador and for his film shoot.
A charity set up by Ivorian football star Didier Drogba to help children in West Africa has been cleared of fraud and corruption but may have "misled" donors, Britain's charity watchdog said on Friday. The Charity Commission launched an investigation in April after Britain's Daily Mail newspaper said less than one percent of 1.7 million pounds ($2 million) donated to the Didier Drogba Foundation was spent on children in Ivory Coast. The watchdog found no evidence of fraud or corruption, but said Drogba's charity, set up in Britain in 2009, had failed to separate its activities from those of an Africa-based arm of the organisation - La Fondation Didier Drogba - established in 2007.
The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd started hacking trees from Friday night to make way for a car shed, hours after the Bombay high court dismissed four petitions filed by NGOs and activists challenging the decision to allow felling of trees in the prime green lung of the city.
The hit Harry Potter series actress's speech touched on many issues, including the confusion over the word feminism.
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