The purse-wielding "Super Granny" who bested six young thugs as they smashed in a jewelry store window in England, in broad daylight says she is no hero. She had no idea at first that she was breaking up a robbery. "I'm just a mum that went in thinking a kid was getting hit."
Last year Ryan Riddell was living in his 2,700-square foot home in Miamisburg, Ohio. But ever since January 1 he's been braving the Ohio winter, living in a cargo van to raise awareness about homelessness in America.
Dr. Roseanna Means is bringing quality medical care -- for free -- to women in Boston's homeless shelters. She and her nonprofit organization, Women of Means, have helped 2,500 women and children each year since 1999.
It took only a walk with Sargent Shriver to learn how deeply loved and loving he was. Countless people approached him: people whose lives were changed because of the anti-poverty programs that Shriver started in the Johnson administration, or because they joined the Peace Corps, under Shriver's leadership.
Tony Melendez plays the guitar with no arms. He taught himself to play the guitar with his feet when he was 16. He is now a touring musician, even playing for the Pope in 1987. Watch him in this video playing and singing Let It Be, written by The Beatles.
21 people were named Wednesday by the Carnegie Hero Fund to receive the Carnegie medal, given to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.
To put a smile on hundreds of homeless children this time of year, one man in New Orleans organizes a Christmas party for those he calls the Forgotten Angels.
More than 60 million viewers have made this little girl a basketball star, even though Jaliya Manuel is just six years old.
There is a treasured hero in Rushville, Illinois: a doctor who has kept his fees the same as they were back in 1955 -- five bucks a visit -- and who has never taken a day off. Dr. Russell Dohner has been looking after his neighbors, going anywhere, at any time, to help those in need, often arriving before emergency crews.
School officials made sure a dying father was able to see his daughter graduate –and did it with an official ceremony organized in only a matter of hours.
40 years ago, a pilot crashed violently into the ground in a city where he knew no one. That's when Minnesotans revealed their amazingly generous nature.
Seventeen more of the wealthiest Americans have joined Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charities while still alive. Among the latest of the super-rich to sign up is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done? said Zuckerberg.
Today a high-level daylong special session on Happiness will be hosted in the United Nations General Assembly by the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, a nation judged by some to be the happiest in the world.
All 193 United Nations member states last year adopted a resolution decreeing March 20 to be the first International Day of Happiness. To celebrate, people all around the world are bringing happiness to others and talking about it on social media networks. The decree followed the first ever UN conference on Happiness and Wellbeing in July 2012.
Suffering from Parkinson's disease, Jim Light was an easy target for a cowardly thief who attacked him in the hallway of his apartment complex. The suspect then stole his computer, his cell phone, and all the food in his kitchen. Light, who is a writer, considered his computer his connection to the world. Now that it was gone, he didn't see the point of going on. Today, Light is back on track, thanks in large part to the compassion of a Hamilton police officer.
As of last week, $24.4 million in corporate aid had been pledged by the U.S. business community for Pakistan flood response efforts. 100 different companies stepped up with aid pledges in response to the historic, devastating floods, according to the Business Civic Leadership Center.
Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers -- including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame -- have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.
Like countless small-business owners, Lola Gonzalez agonizingly resolved to trim her firm's nine-person staff when the economic recovery began to sputter last spring. Unlike other entrepreneurs, she picked an unlikely employee to lay off: herself.
A fiery redhead is making a big difference at a struggling school in Texas. Once full of low-performing students, the school now scores top marks in the state. Hart Elementary, in northeast Austin, serves a tough group of students from low income, low education households. 90 percent of the students are Hispanic, with English as a second language. Since Leslie Dusing's arrival, Hart's test scores have risen meteorically in reading, math, and science
A UK graduate student invented a solar-powered fridge that uses zero electricity, keeping food cold for families in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It works through evaporation and can be used to keep perishable goods such as milk and meat cool for days.