Starting today, Microsoft's Technology for Good program are donating Office 365 to nonprofits worldwide regardless of the organization's size. The offer is available in 41 countries today, and will be rolled out to 49 more by July 2014.
How do you give a golden retriever her best birthday ever? New York City knows exactly what to do...
The recovering drug addict with a long rap sheet who had just sat down on the bench in a Philadelphia train station often wondered if he was a good person. But there was no self-doubt when he leaped onto the tracks to help a complete stranger he'd just seen fall off the platform.
The Czech Republic plans to donate $200,000 to help the Texas town of West recover from a devastating fertilizer plant explosion. The government decided to provide the aid in solidarity because a significant number of people in the town of 2,700 have Czech roots.
When great ape keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo were deciding how to add more variety and enrichment to their animals' lives, they turned to Orangutan Outreach and a program that had seen great success in 12 other zoos around the world: Apps for Apes. Keepers introduced the Zoo's six orangutans to iPads: Bonnie likes to bang on the drums, Kyle prefers the piano and 25-year-old Iris is content to listen to the soothing sounds of the koi pond while watching animated fish splash.
Living Right Now, Hope Beneath Out Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
In a letter sent to President Barack Obama, a group of Republican former Environmental Protection Agency administrators, governors and members of Congress are throwing their public support behind a fuel economy target of 60 miles per gallon.
Exploratory drilling in Haiti has uncovered gold and silver deep inside the country's northeastern mountains, potentially worth $20 billion, that may help relive centuries of poverty in the Caribbean nation.
Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. We have shown that some species of milkweed, the larva's food plants, can reduce parasite infection in the monarchs, says Jaap de Roode, the evolutionary biologist who led the study.
For the first time in 130 years, a new pole will be erected in the Gwaii Haanas area, detailing the history of the region and commemorating two landmark agreements that led to the creation of the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and the Haida Heritage Site.
In Canada, the past sins were finally being accounted for recently, when the government distributed recompense to those aboriginal Canadians who were forced into Residential Schools in the twentieth century. One man in the Northwest Territories took his compensation, and inspired a community.
People can't get enough of a new fast food joint in central California that is super-sizing healthy alternatives to greasy fare.
Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp & Dave Matthews are hosting the 30th charity concert for farmers in Chicago. Listen Live online...
A heroic 10-year-old jumped into action to help save three kids after their school bus crashed into a lake.
Three days after promising to match donations for four humanitarian relief groups, the tech giant helped raise over ten million dollars.
A high school football player says his Apple watch saved his life—and afterward got him an offer for an internship at Apple.
Galvanized by anger over the killing of the popular American ambassador here last week, thousands of Libyans marched through this city on Friday, demanding the disarming of the militias that have refused to disband since overthrowing the country's dictator, Col. Gadaffi.
Members of two faiths traditionally divided came together this month in a mutual show of compassion in Reading, Pa., where Muslim brothers and sisters joined their Christian counterparts in serving the underserved, helping hundreds of people by handing out coats, clothing, shoes and other items, along with sandwiches and snacks.
In Libya, the oil is once again flowing. Libya's oil industry is now back up to 90 percent of its pre-war production, earning the income that gives many Libyans confidence that, despite hardship, they do have a shot at a better future
Europe's Jews face rising anti-Semitism in some countries, but multiculturalism is far from dead. Today, more than 1,000 Muslims formed a human shield around Oslo's synagogue, offering protection and solidarity with Jews following a violent attack in Copenhagen last weekend.