A Barbie doll wearing a burka is to be auctioned in Italy to raise money for a UK children’s charity, according to a report in the Daily Mail newspaper.

The doll, wearing traditional Islamic dress, went on show along with 500 other Barbies at the Salone Dei Cinquecento in Florence.

Burka Barbie, as she is known, will be auctioned by Sotherby’s with all the proceeds going to the Save the Children charity. The money will be spent on the Rewrite the Future campaign, which helps millions of children worldwide effected by conflict.

The exhibition, of which Burka Barbie is one of the stars, has been created by the Italian designer Eliana Lorena.

The exhibition is part of Barbie’s 50th anniversary celebrations this year and has the backing of the doll’s makers Mattel.

Barbie was launched in March 1959 by Ruth Handler. The doll was joined by her long-term boyfriend Ken in 1961.

Click here for a picture of Burka Barbie.

The following report is from Bloomberg.

A tsunami in the Pacific Ocean caused by a magnitude-8 earthquake may have killed more than 120 people in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, as well as prompting warnings that waves may hit Japan and the US west coast.

The toll in Samoa, where 26 people are confirmed dead, may rise to 100 as rescue teams reach isolated villages, Radio New Zealand reported, citing an estimate by the nation’s Disaster Management Office. At least 19 people are dead in American Samoa, according to territory director of homeland security, Mike Sala. Tonga is checking reports of 10 deaths.

A 5-foot (1.5-meter) tsunami was reported at Pago Pago, on the northern side of American Samoa, the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Waves have been as high 15 feet in other parts of the island, Eni Faleomavaega, the territory’s delegate to the US Congress told Agence France-Presse.

The quake was the biggest since a magnitude-8.1 tremor hit east of the Kuril Islands in Russia in January 2007. The Pacific warning center extended a tsunami advisory to the west coast of the U.S. from the Californian-Mexican border to the Oregon-Washington border.

A warning was issued by Japan’s weather agency for an 0.5 meter (1.6 feet) tsunami to hit the country’s eastern seaboard by 3 pm Japanese time. Officials in Ofunato, a city in northern Japan, ordered the evacuation of about 10,000 residents, according to a notice on the municipality’s Web site.

A tsunami alert issued for the South Pacific region was later canceled.

President Barack Obama declared a “major disaster” in American Samoa, the White House said in an e-mailed statement. The declaration makes government funding immediately available for aid operations and rebuilding in the territory that has a population of about 65,600 people.

The tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-8.0 earthquake shortly before 7 am local time on September 29 about 122 miles (196 kilometers) southwest of Apia, the Samoan capital.