Egyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago. No one knows who will win the presidency, but Egyptians are enjoying the historic uncertainty.
A guy from South Carolina who wanted to keep the Washington monuments clean during the DC government shutdown was seen mowing the lawn around the Lincoln Memorial yesterday. Reporters later interviewed the South Carolina man named Chris Cox, who bought an old lawn mower at a thrift store and hit the National Mall carrying a large flag and trash bags to empty the overflowing bins.
The cease-fire by Basque separatist group ETA will need to be accompanied by justice and forgiveness if it is to achieve a lasting peace, a group of Spanish evangelical Christians has said.
The Rector and congregation of St John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen have offered the hand of Christian fellowship - and part of their church building - to the hundreds of Muslims attending a neighboring and overcrowded mosque. The Aberdeen mosque is so busy at times that members of the Muslim community were having to pray outside in the wind and rain.
A little boy in China's Guangdong province is lucky to be alive after falling through an opening in a fourth-story window ledge, where he dangled by his neck until a brave neighbor came to his rescue.
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 110 new terracotta warriors that laid buried since 210–209 BC, part of the famed army built to guard the tomb of China's first emperor. The life-size figures were excavated by archaeologists near the site where in the 1970's farmers found the first bits of a terracotta army, including chariots with full-size horses.
Aaron Taylor leaves his life of binge drinking -- get this -- and also leaves his life as a well-paid star in television sportscasting to go for a high that comes from helping others.
When you've got Gaga on your side, it's easy to raise lots of money. That's what the MAC AIDS Fund, the philanthropic arm of MAC Cosmetics, discovered during Lady Gaga's tenure as spokesperson over the past year -- and Gaga's 20 million Facebook fans and eight million-plus Twitter followers made the difference.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver James Jones is on his way to a starring role in the Super Bowl, but his road to success led through homeless shelters from the time he was born until his freshman year in high school. Now he is helping other kids find their roads to success.
Hometown hero, Will Smith and a long-time friend have come to the aid of West Philadelphia high school, which was targeted by computer thieves in February.
Rapper and clothing entrepreneur Pharrell Williams is a key investor in Bionic Yarn, a highly durable fiber composed of organic cotton wrapped around a core of recycled PET from plastic bottles, which has been woven into shoes, canvas bags, jackets and shirts by such companies as Timberland, and Cole Haan.
Oprah Winfrey has made a career our of surprising people but on Tuesday night, the tables were turned as hundreds of her celebrity friends -- from Maria Shriver to Aretha Franklin to Tom Cruise -- surprised her to say goodbye.
When a 7-year-old learned his friend had cancer, he decded he could help raise money by racing go-karts. One of the boy's heroes, Nascar racer Jeff Gordon, heard about his campaign and decided to help.
Late pop star Michael Jackson was immortalized in cement on Thursday when his three children stamped the Thriller singer's glove and shoe prints in the hallowed concrete courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Jackson's daughter Paris, 13, imprinted her father's iconic silver sequined glove and scrawled his name into the cement, adding a heart in between Michael and Jackson.
After a fan Tweeted Justin Bieber, as a fellow Canadian, asking for his help to save lives (like hers) by promoting organ donation, he responded -- and his fans have done the same.
Over the last three months, living in a chilly tent on the roof of a vacant South Side Chicago motel, Rev. Corey Brooks kept up his vigil against gun violence. On Friday, he was triumphant after a pledge of $98,000 from filmmaker Tyler Perry provided the final push for reaching the pastor's goal of raising $450,000 to buy and demolish the decrepit motel, a haven for drugs and prostitution.
It took just 15 minutes to locate a teen who went missing five months ago in New York City, after Whoopi Goldberg broadcasted her photo and appealed for help on the ABC talk show The View.
Phyllis Diller, the first woman to make it big as a comedian, was an American pioneer. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife. She made self-deprecating jokes about her age and appearance, her terrible cooking and housekeeping, and her fictional husband named Fang. She died peacefully in her sleep, her longtime manager said, with a smile on her face. She was 95.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jessica Biel, and Samuel L. Jackson. When enough A-list Hollywood actors come together for a cause, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox networks will follow. Tomorrow night, at 8:00pm Eastern/Pacific and 7:00 Central, even cable channels will clear their schedules to broadcast a commercial-free one-hour fundraiser produced by the entertainment-industry-favorite, Stand Up to Cancer, co-founded by Katie Couric.
Superstar musicians born in the New York/New Jersey area will perform in Rockefeller Center Friday, part of a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy. New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, along with Billy Joel from Long Island are joining Christina Aguilera, Sting and Jimmy Fallon for the show, to be broadcast on NBC at 8pm.