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Meet the young environmentalist sending children to school in Indonesia

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Living

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Louis Vuitton teams up with Sotheby's for charity bag auction

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Generation Hope: Children, charity and knowing your limits

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Liverpool to host "world's largest sing-along" event for Eurovision

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Met Gala stars pay tribute to Karl Lagerfeld

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Meet the Ugandan woman who cooked up a feast for homeless children during Ramadan

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Meet the Syrian couple bringing joy to displaced children during Ramadan

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Meet the football team from Pakistan who won the hearts of crowds in Qatar

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Culture news

Paris holds musical benefit for victims of Turkey and Syria earthquake

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Food and Drink

'Donate a Doner': UK kebab shops aid Turkey earthquake survivors

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Culture news

Turkish football fans donate thousands of toys for quake victims

Turkish football will never forget the day Beşiktaş fans threw thousands of toys onto the pitch in support of children made homeless by the earthquake.

01/03/2023

Culture news

In Madonna we trust: Who is Turkish rock star Haluk Levent?

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Tech News

Elon Musk gave €1.82 billion of Tesla stock to charity last year

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