RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: US Olympic authorities apologised to Brazil on Thursday as two US swimmers were allowed to go home having retracted a fabricated story about being mugged in Rio.
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg said that he and his wife are donating $20 million to help get high-speed Internet service to US classrooms.
KARACHI: President & CEO of Faysal Bank Limited (FBL), Nauman Ansari, visited the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and donated a cheque of Rs 10 million towards expanding operational expenses of the state-of-the-art facility.
NEW YORK: Actress and media magnate Oprah Winfrey is selling antique furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics and memorabilia from her Chicago apartment next month to benefit her education foundation, the auction house running the sale said on Tuesday.
CALIFORNIA: Facebook Inc said users would now have option to donate directly to various Ebola relief charities through a button at the top of their News Feeds.
WINNIPEG: Canada will donate a small quantity of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed in its government lab to the World Health Organization for use in Africa, the country's health minister said on Tuesday.
LAHORE: Former test cricketer and coach Intikhab Alam has donated 1.4 million rupees for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of North Waziristan, ARY News reported.