Bill Gates urges China’s wealthiest to give to charity

Businessman makes plea in People’s Daily for country to improve bad philanthropic record by investing in the poor

British Library to unveil £33m newspaper reading room

State-of-the-art facility will store more than three centuries of newspapers and magazines dating back to the English civil war

Mario Testino returns home to focus on the beauty of Peru

The man made famous for his portraits of supermodels discusses why he has been drawn back to his hometown Lima

China hopes to take rare animals off the menu with tough jail sentences

People who knowing eat products made from 420 species classified as endangered face of up to 10 years or more in prison

Joséphine’s letters to trusted Napoleon general to go on sale in Paris

Expert describes four unpublished letters to chief of staff Alexandre Berthier as ‘wonderful, intimate and revealing’

Copenhagen fashion summit: an event for solutions, but were there any?

Seven reflections from on the ground at the largest gathering on sustainable fashion