Charlie Sheen Donates To Homeless Charity

Charlie Sheen has topped off a charitable year by making a sizeable Christmas donation to help the homeless. The former Two and a Half Men star has handed $50,000 (£3...

UK gives £12.5m aid for South Sudan refugees

The government has announced a £12.5m aid package for families fleeing the violence in South Sudan.

At least 180,000 people have been forced fr...

HUMANITARIANISM – THE METAPHOR FOR PROGRESS IN 2014

You have no need to go anywhere. Journey into yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendour of your own light – Rumi

As curtains fall on 2013, l...

Climate change will change our world fundamentally

The UN warns in her new climate report before a very rapid rise in sea level. It threatens heat waves, many glaciers could completely disappear, for regions such as Germany...

"Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort

A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to organizations that deny global warming are funnelled through third-party pass-through organizations that ...

Ranbir,Abhishek take on Dhoni and men in a celebrity football match for charity

The funds raised from the match went to the Magic Bus Organisation, which works for charity for underprivileged children. Virat Kohli launched the team for his foundation &...

Of Khobragade, Richards, Equality, Fairness & Uniformity

I’ve been following the Devyani Khobragade story since its emergence at the prime centre of global media, and to me, it smacks of one more gaping hole, bigger than th...

The Stow Away Who Touched Our Lives

As was customary, when our friend SD’s ship sailed into Bombay Harbor, my mother, brother and I visited his ship. As we headed towards the bridge, we saw two havaldar...

Call to focus election on child poverty in New Zealand

Children’s Commissioner, Dr Russell Wills, wants motorists, the well-off and the elderly to take less from taxpayers so that more public funding can go into tackling ...