Tyrell Clay, the football quarterback, is the most popular boy at Miller High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. Adam, on the other hand, has been picked on and called names - and was nominated to the prom court as a joke. What Tyrell did that night on stage surprised everyone -- especially Adam, who can now walk down the hallways with his head held high.
A gallant young man working at a burger joint saved a heartbroken teen from one of the most humiliating nights of her life as she was stood up on prom night.
Kasey Rosen wanted to impress on prom night and did she ever. She had her hair and makeup done and took pictures with friends, but the prom, held at Baltimore's National Aquarium, was not her destination.
After Jared Hill was instructed by his doctors to wear a surgical mask during his girlfriend's Senior Prom, Emily Jarrell and her pals decided they would all wear the same masks to make him feel more comfortable.
In a bid to get a date to the prom, Stefan Montana approached actor Bryan Cranston and asked him to deliver one of the most famous lines from the hit TV series' Breaking Bad.
80-year-old James Drain never got to go to his high school prom. He never even wore a tuxedo in his eight decades of life. This week, he got to do both.
10 years ago, Ben promised he'd take her to prom. Last week, he made good on his word and brought the 17-year-old pal, who has Down Syndrome, as his date.
Angry Birds' creator Rovio Entertainment is getting angry about non-native rats eating birds' eggs on South Pacific islands. They've swooped in to assist.
A rare fish nearly wiped out in the 1980s has recovered to become only the second fish ever to recover enough to get off the endangered species list.
Camfed International hopes to create a self-perpetuating cycle by helping many thousands of children and women a year in Zambia by paying schooling costs, funding training and providing grants or loans to start businesses
Zambikes, a company set up by two Californians and two Zambians is aimed to build bikes tough enough to handle the local terrain using fast-growing bamboo.
A sweet new video by ChildFund International in honor of Mother's Day features kids from around the world in Sri Lanka, India, Zambia, Ecuador and other countries saying "I love you, Mom" in their native languages.
Five nations have agreed to launch the world's largest international conservation area to protect nearly half of Africa's elephants and a vast range of animals, birds and plants, many of them endangered by poaching and human encroachment.
Simon Berry is piggy-backing on Coca-Cola's distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most. Thanks to a vast network of local suppliers, you can get a Coke almost anywhere money changes hands. In the 1980s, Berry was an aid worker in Zambia, and when he looked at Coke's success, he saw an opportunity. Today his essential health kits for treating diarrhea are made to fit exactly inside the empty space between beverage bottles in Coke delivery crates.
Thousands of children living in poverty in southern Africa will receive baby dolls, thanks to a donation by Hasbro of 20,000 black Baby Alive dolls at the special request of US Ambassador.
Over a decade ago when conservationists in Zambia figured out the connection between poverty and poaching, when they learned the reason poachers hunted game was to feed their family, a great program called COMACO was hatched. By educating women and poachers in farming, bee-keeping, carpentry, and metal working, they were improving villagers lives and poaching of lions, elephants and other large species began to plummet.
Singer Adele helped a young, bedridden fan's dream come true with a surprise visit to her home and an invitation to a concert.
An inspiring new book by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow reveals a few instances when President Obama personally helped struggling Americans whose stories reached him as part of a daily ritual to read ten letters from average citizens every day.
At her Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005, Kamael Sugrim listened intently to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. A year after he was first diagnosed with cancer, Jobs told the graduates that time is limited, so have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Sugrim, a business grad, had her future life of prosperity assured, but Jobs' words never left her. She took them to heart and changed her life.
Harold Hackett has spent two decades throwing bottles containing messages into the Atlantic in the hope that he may be able to contact people from far off shores. Since 1996 he has received over 3,100 responses from people all over the world.