A Norwegian jumper survived a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain. Video captured by a camera attached to Hans Lange's specially designed jump suit showed him struggling to straighten out his parachute before slamming into a rock wall and crashing into a tree top
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Christian the lion was bought as a cub in London and raised by two young men who gave him up when he outgrew the city. They released him in Africa to be raised in the wild and the video of their joyful reunion a year later has become a YouTube sensation.
A Chinook has successfully airlifted a giant RAF Sea King helicopter which had broken down while on an operation to winch an injured hillwalker to safety. BBC NEWS features a video of the dramatic lift.
Taja Sevelle's Urban Farming program transformed hundreds of acres of vacant land in the city into 190 gardens blooming across the country and abroad, providing fresh produce to an estimated 50,000 people, some of whom desperately need it.
Professor Norman T. Uphoff of Cornell University is advocating a new way of growing rice in hopes of helping to solve the world food crisis.
I didn't make a plan to save critters in need, but that is the path my life has taken. My passion for animals went all the way back to when I was four years old. For months, I stole rags from under Mom's kitchen sink. I made little beds for stray cats, injured rabbits and […]
After a cancer patient's plea to Extreme Home Makeover to help her build a new house for her family of six, her community pulled together to grant the wish that the show couldn't.
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Henry Allingham, Britain's oldest man, thought to be one of three surviving UK World War I veterans, is celebrating his 112th birthday.
US troops are helping a blind iraqi girl who needs surgery. She will be able to see her mother for the first time thanks to a world-class surgeon and the American soldiers who wanted to help and found donations.
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