The government of Japan has pledged $17 million dollars to Afghanistan to provide more people with clean drinking water. Small dams will also be built for creating electricity and water canals to boost agriculture.
School supplies traveled 7,800 miles from New York to Afghanistan after students from Windsor Central High School collected more than 70 boxes for the children and teachers overseas.
In the midst of Staff Sgt. Jesse Knott's lowest moment in Afghanistan, following a suicide bombing, a feral cat climbed into his lap and restored his faith and his humanity. To return the favor, Knott vowed to save Koshka from his pitiful life.
A special guest at a Sacramento baseball game made the first pitch into a homecoming for a local soldier and his children.
A group of Marines on their way home from Afghanistan got something they didn't expect after spending the better part of five days getting on and off planes as they tried to get from one side of the globe to another: cheers from a small crowd of police, a fire truck water salute and first-class plane tickets.
Afghanistan's presidential election closed on Saturday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared for a vote that will bring the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by conflict for decades.
A team of four U.S. veterans who are now in business school in Massachusetts have teamed up with farmers they met while serving in Afghanistan to help boost their incomes by by bringing to market the most coveted and expensive spice in the world - Afghan saffron.
Hollywood couldn't have written a better script: Watch this young boy with cystic fibrosis see his superhero idol appear out of a phone call.
Ex gang-bangers, gay parents, Mormon missionaries, and celebrity journalists – these are all examples of "stories" you can check out from the Human Library.
Tired of feeling disconnected from your true self? Here are ten ways you can reconnect by practicing mindfulness.
A class of drug currently being used to treat leukemia has the unexpected side-effect of boosting immune responses against many different cancers, reports a new study. The drugs, called p110δ inhibitors, have shown such remarkable efficacy against certain leukemias in recent clinical trials that patients on the placebo were switched to the real drug. Until now, however, they have not been tested in other types of cancer.
Healing the environment with every purchase, a Philadelphia retailer has already removed a quarter million pounds of trash from oceans, rivers, and beaches.
Maasai women are bringing a solar revolution to remote corners Kenya, bringing economic freedom to themselves and others via donkey.
There are two camps developing throughout the world. One dwells upon how bad everything is: we are all in trouble; the economy is crashing; after Global Warming we won't have enough food and water (or too much water); the spiraling war in Iraq; and a whole platter of other problems that continue to get worse. […]
They are all like a second family to a letter carrier in Glendale, Arizona. That's why he delivered a hand-written letter to each one on his route last week.
What was once a turtle graveyard is now one of the largest leatherback nesting colonies in the world, thanks to a woman who grew sick of sea turtle carcasses littering the ground and launched a crusade to help end the slaughter of the gentle giants.
Ever since the night 10 years ago, when Oscar Aranda, a biology student out of college, witnessed the gruesome death of a sea turtle killed for its eggs and meat, he has patrolled Puerto Vallarta's beaches as an unofficial keeper of the sea turtle maternity ward.
400 volunteers on the Caribbean island of Bonair ensure that each year the endangered loggerhead sea turtles hatching on the beaches make it safely to the waves. In one location two year ago the babies were killed after they walked the wrong way, confused by airport lights. This year a human wall was created to block any light except the bright ocean view, which drew them safely home.
After five years of delay, the federal government today finally proposed to more than 739 miles of critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles on their nesting beaches along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
For the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Walmart Foundation will donate $25 million to support organizations that aid in disaster recovery.