Little black dress outfits school

Doors opened this month to students and visitors at the first school in India outfitted with proceeds from the sale of Audrey Hepburn’s signature little black dress. The school at Laxmikantapur near Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, complete with computers and teaching aids, will provide an education to about 200 children who otherwise might not get one, the BBC said.

The school is the first of 15 planned to open, thanks to the anonymous bidder who bought the Givenchy-designed dress for more than $900,000. Proceeds from the auction went to the Kolkata-based charity City of Joy Aid, which helps India’s poor through a network of schools, clinics, rehabilitation centers and hospital boats.

Designer Hubert de Givenchy donated the dress -- especially designed for Hepburn in her role as Holly Golightly in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” -- to the City of Joy Aid, run by French author and philanthropist Dominique Lapierre, who was on had for the school’s opening.

Lapierre said the school was a fitting tribute to Hepburn, who spent the last years of her life helping the poor by working as an ambassador for United Nations Children’s Fund.

Mass killings

One of the men charged with killing at least 19 people, most of them children, in India has made a videotaped confession The Hindu reported. Surendra Koli admitted sexually assaulting and killing the children. The bones of the victims were found in Pandher’s bungalow in Noida, an industrial suburb of New Delhi.

Nuke missile test

Pakistan said the recent test of its short-range Hatf-II Abdali missile was successful. The successful test of the Hatf-II missile, which has a maximum range of 125 miles, came less than a week after Pakistan tested its nuclear-capable Hatf IV, which has a range 10 times longer than the previous warheads which were launched.

Air Force help

The Indian Air Force airlifted nearly 9,000 travelers stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway to help them reach their final destinations.

The Press Trust of India reported that through the 61 military transport sorties the stranded passengers were able to bypass the closed roadway and reach their destinations.

Jumbo gift

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave China a very substantial gift in the form of a 5-year-old elephant named Migara. Migara, which will live at the Beijing Zoo, weighs nearly a ton and is named after an ancient Sri Lankan chancellor. The gift will also help diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and China