Camera Shows Dogs Sprinting for Help After Owner Collapses From a Stroke
This security footage of Maureen Hatcher's dogs running to her rescue only further illustrates how dogs truly are man's best friend.
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Investors Worth $6.5 Trillion Are Using Funding to Demand Change From World's Biggest Fast Food Chains
A group of investors managing roughly $6.5 million is demanding that fast food companies step up their game – or else face the financial consequences.
Watch Police Officer's Viral Video of Three Young Rappers Helping Elderly Woman Get into Her Car
Officer Carnegie was about to help the older couple when she saw three young men offer their assistance – so she pulled out her phone and started filming.
Seagull Has Been Visiting the Man Who Saved Him Almost Every Day for the Last 12 Years
It has been 12 years since John Sumner first helped Chirpy with his broken leg – but the bird still visits him every day of the off-season.
Metal Brought to Earth by Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Could Be Harmless Cure for Cancer
This rare material was brought to Earth by the massive asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 millions years ago – and now, it could cure cancer.
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...
Dogs Could Be the Key to Turning the Tide Against Malaria
This new study shows that pups are capable of sniffing out more than just Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer—and could be a new tool to fight malaria.
Bed Nets Pay Off With Plunge in Malaria Cases in Gambia
The incidence of malaria in Gambia fell substantially in five years -- between 50 percent and 85 percent from 2003 to 2007 -- thanks to insecticide-coated bed nets that protect children.
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.
Doctor Builds Makeshift Device To Save Baby's Life on Airline Flight
Flying over the middle of the Atlantic, a doctor thinking on his feet quickly built a medical device that saved a baby girl's life.
New Device Gives Early Warning of Asthma Attack in Kids
Feeling helpless during an asthma attack is what led Matt Fischer to develop a device that seeks to provide families with control over the disorder–until there's a cure.
Asthma Could Be Cured Within 5 Years With This New Breakthrough
Scientists think they may have a cure for asthma, now that they've discovered a "switch" that can turn off the condition, and thus, the symptoms.
Wearable Sensors Will Help Runners, Asthmatics Find Less Polluted Routes
Spec Sensors, an American company, is developing tiny sensors that detect pollution. One application is for small electronics, worn by runners.
Farm Dust Prevents Child Allergies, Could Lead to Asthma Vaccine
Scientists have figured out why people who grow up on farms have fewer allergies and cases of asthma—and they may be able to use that to create a vaccine.
El Salvador Ambassador Saved Thousands From Nazis
José Castellanos's story of helping to save 25,000 Jews by granting bogus nationality certificates during the second world war has been rediscovered.
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.