His Highness Karim Aga Khan IV (second right), accompanied by his wife the Begum Salimah (R), greets on June 3, 1979 Top Ville and his French jockey Yves Saint-Martin, at the Chantilly race course.

Jewels belonging to the late Begum Aga Khan, wife of one of the world's richest men, have been auctioned off for more than $4.5 million with proceeds going to help fight poverty and illiteracy.

Yet, despite their differences, the Begum, whose charity foundation has just raised £600,000 to develop self-help micro-loan projects in southern India, pays tribute to the Aga.

LISBON, June 7: Begum Inaara Aga Khan, Honorary President of Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS), an international emergency relief agency, on Thursday met Portugal’s Foreign Minister Antonio ...

The Aga Khan and his wife, the Begum Aga Khan, have filed for divorce, it emerged today. The couple married in May 1998 and have a four-year-old son, Prince Aly.

He was married twice and had four children. His first wife, Princess Salimah Aga Khan, formerly Sarah Frances Croker Poole, was a British model whom he married in 1969.

WHEN a French court ordered the Aga Khan to pay £50m (about €60m) to his second wife, it was generally thought the jet-setting spiritual leader had got off lightly.

His split from his German-born former pop singer wife, the Begum Inaara Aga Khan, six years ago was billed as potentially the most expensive divorce in history with a $806 million price tag. But ...

Half-British prince Rahim al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, becoming the spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and taking over a philanthropic empire worth $13 billion.