"A Roman Catholic activist who has helped provide education to thousands of African refugees displaced by ethnic bloodshed has been awarded a $1 million prize recognizing unsung humanitarians," AP reported.
"A 9-year-old boy whose mother died in a car crash in the Arizona desert was rescued by a man entering the U.S. illegally, who stayed with him until help arrived the next day."
"Expecting a $15 refund from the Utah Department of Commerce, the Draper man opened his mail recently to find a $2,245,342 check." After some consideration, he returned the accidental over payment to the state.
"Word of the good Samaritan car salesman started spreading through the homeless and prison communities, and the more people showed up at the Chevrolet dealership, the more Korry Holtzander did to change their lives for the better."
"A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday — and immediately turned it in to authorities." (AP)
British adventurer Jason Lewis on Saturday arrived in Greenwich, south-east London, ending a 13-year round-the-world trip using only the power of the human body.
A traveling salesman who tried to sell a Kirby vacuum to a family in Twin Falls, Idaho, ended up, instead, donating his kidney. He calls it "a miracle" that he feels so good.
Thousands of African-American men are heeding the call, signing up to patrol the streets of crime-infested southwest Philadelphia and serve as mentors. "We need love back in this community."
A woman collapsed on a subway platform and fell onto the tracks. Two men pulled her to safety, but disappeared once she was ok.
"As one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan, he has traveled a road of pain many people cannot imagine, survived against all odds and come back to become an artist, rapping about those experiences. Music has provided him an outlet to deal with his boyhood suffering and transform it." - cnn
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte unveiled Monday a new foundation that will help the world's poorest countries gain access to precious clean water, funding the program with (Canadian) $100 million.
Ron Clark, a NY Times best-seller who was featured in a made-for-cable-TV movie, opened a private $3.5-million, state-of-the-art school in one of the poorest sections of Atlanta: "More than 350 students applied to the new Ron Clark Academy where flat-screen TVs are mounted in bathrooms, graffiti art fills the walls.
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