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Get Happy: Celebrate the First UN International Day of Happiness

All 193 United Nations member states last year adopted a resolution decreeing March 20 to be the first International Day of Happiness. To celebrate, people all around the world are bringing happiness to others and talking about it on social media networks. The decree followed the first ever UN conference on Happiness and Wellbeing in July 2012.

Be a Star at Thanksgiving: 8 Awe-Inspiring Stories to Bring to the Party

Need some conversation starters to steer away from politics or Aunt Millie's surgery during your family gatherings? Here are eight compelling and funny stories from Good News Network to engage any audience. 14 Yrs After Receiving a Shoebox Gift, Filipino Girl Marries Idaho Boy Who Sent it When a young Filipino girl received a gift-filled […]

Troops In Afghanistan Keep Nightmare At Bay

There is honest debate now about whether the United States should commit more troops to Afghanistan, or withdraw them. But I was part of the NPR team that covered the war in Afghanistan eight years ago and saw saw the kind of society the Taliban made in Afghanistan -- a nightmare no people should live again.

Life Lessons the Afghanistan War Taught Me

Late last year, after eight months of service halfway around the world, I decided to take stock of myself. By a conventional definition of being connected to the modern world, informed and up-to-date, I was woefully ignorant. I was deployed in Afghanistan, and that combat sabbatical taught a completely different regimen of vital knowledge. This […]