When Grocery Store Accidentally Leaves Doors Unlocked, Honest Customer Leaves $5 for Tomatoes
These honest customers are being hailed as prime examples of Canadian kindness after a supermarket inadvertently left their doors unlocked.
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What if Your Homework Included Comic Books? NFL All-Pro Pushes to Make Education Fun
A former NFL All-Pro fullback has created a comic book to help teach STEM and environmental stewardship to diverse underserved youth.
Australia is Creating Renewable Energy Faster Than Other Countries and They're Planting 1 Billion Trees to Boot
With every passing year, Australia is reportedly adding more renewable energy per person than any other country in the world.
These Floating Trashcans Are Being Deployed Around the World So They Can Suck Up Tons of Ocean Trash
These floating rubbish bins are already sucking up ocean pollution in dozens of marinas and ocean ports around the world.
Free Hotline for Youngsters Has Helped Hundreds of Thousands With Everything From Homework to Sadness
For almost 30 years, youngsters have been able to use this special hotline for help with anything from failing grades to coping with their home life.
Female Mutilation Declining in Africa
About 150 communities in Guinea collectively abandoned the practice of female genital cutting - a landmark declaration in a country where more than 97 percent of women have undergone the ritual. Other countries are similarly abandoning the tradition...
Forest Policies in Rwanda, US and Gambia Win UN-backed Awards
Rwanda won an award for engineering a major reversal in the trend toward declining forests with its massive reforestation program promoting indigenous species and involving the local population. The US and Gambia also won awards for forest policies enacted.
El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence on 20th Anniversary of Peace Accords, Offers Reparations
Crowds gathered in the small community of El Mozote to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords that ended El Salvador´s 12-year-long civil war. Rural El Mozote, the site of a 1981 massacre, was offered reparations and economic health, as well as protected historical status.
El Salvador's Gang Truce Cuts Murder Rate Dramatically
Gang leaders in El Salvador declared an unprecedented truce that authorities say has cut the homicide rate in half in just four months. In March, rival gangs surprised the country by releasing a joint statement declaring an end to violence and pledging to freeze recruitment of new adolescent members, especially in poor neighborhoods and around schools. Since then, the change has been dramatic.
Foreign Donors Open Their Wallets Despite Myanmar Problems
As of Thursday, donations to Myanmar relief totaled $25 million from 28 nations, the European Union and charities, with another $25 million pledged by donors. Friday the Gates Foundation added $3 million and Japan, $10 million.
Aid Reaches One Million Cyclone Victims in Myanmar
Relief efforts by aid agencies have reached around one million people in Myanmar, just over 40 percent of those affected by the cyclone, according to the United Nations (not counting aid distributed by the Government).
Political Prisoners Among 6,000 Freed in Myanmar
Nineteen political prisoners, including allies of pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and five Buddhist monks, have been freed in military-ruled Myanmar as part of a general amnesty, an exile group said on Sunday.
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