After two weeks sitting by his wife's bedside hoping she would wake from a coma, Andrew Ray was at his wits' end. Doctors had told him Emma could become a real-life sleeping beauty when she failed to regain consciousness after a heart attack.
Every Monday afternoon, Rev. Bob Book transforms his Atlanta church into a spa for the homeless, washing and scrubing the feet of the city's homeless.
In his first formal interview as president, Barack Obama sat down with an Arab television station to offer a welcoming message to the Muslim world. He first expressed his interest in reaching out to Muslims as president, and pursuing a different approach to foreign policy than his predecessors, in his inaugural address - the only inaugural speech ever to mention the subject.
In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? The emerging field of positive psychology is bursting with new findings about how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-day habits affect our well-being. Here are 10 scientifically proven strategies for getting happy.
One woman is running in marathons around the world to raise awareness for drug treatment after her troubled daughter had become a homeless, methamphetamine addict. Her efforts has raised a quarter of a million dollars so far.
A group of Iraqi soldiers stepped up to help California residents victimized by recent wildfires raging throughout the state. "We want to send a message to the American president and the American people," Abbas said. "We feel that we are a family."
Joe Miller, a Colorado farmer wondered if there were any way he could save his leftover potatos and onions from going to waste in the fields. He decided to open his fields to the public on Saturday and thought he might see 5,000 people show up, but 40,000 arrived for the gleaning.
Recycle-a-Bike was founded in 1999 with a straightforward mandate: Repair abused, remaindered, broken, or worn bikes and funnel them back to consumers. But the organization's youth programs have become a big draw for students who want the mechanics training.
Two wounded veterans of the Iraq War started a weekly dinner five years ago for fellow veterans who lost limbs in the war. Each Friday there is healing and camaraderie.
Bloggers are combining physical fitness with the desire to help others in a new internet tool called Train for Humanity. Their initial pilot project focuses on raising $50,000 to help rebuild a school in Darfur.
Even while Americans are reeling from bad economic news, most donors plan to give to charity, with 51 percent planning to donate via the Internet during November or December, according to a new survey.
Archaeologists in Afghanistan said they discovered a giant Buddha statue measuring 62 feet tall and features the Buddha in a sleeping position.
Join possibly the largest experiment ever designed to test the power of group intention to lower violence and bring peace in conflict areas around the world. This Sunday, September 14, you can participate with hundreds of thousands of people for ten minutes sending an intention for peace under highly controlled scientific conditions.
A Norwegian jumper survived a spine-chilling crash from a mile-high mountain. Video captured by a camera attached to Hans Lange's specially designed jump suit showed him struggling to straighten out his parachute before slamming into a rock wall and crashing into a tree top
Farm Aid today announced that initial grants would be made to southern farm and faith-based organizations to support family farmers hardest hit by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav.
For the past seven days, there has been no getting away from the incessant drum beat of bad news... "Everything is collapsing around our ears," so says the television reporter. But the journalists' world is not the only world. There are also rescues, innovations, breakthroughs and happy endings.
Christian the lion was bought as a cub in London and raised by two young men who gave him up when he outgrew the city. They released him in Africa to be raised in the wild and the video of their joyful reunion a year later has become a YouTube sensation.
Taja Sevelle's Urban Farming program transformed hundreds of acres of vacant land in the city into 190 gardens blooming across the country and abroad, providing fresh produce to an estimated 50,000 people, some of whom desperately need it.
Professor Norman T. Uphoff of Cornell University is advocating a new way of growing rice in hopes of helping to solve the world food crisis.
After a cancer patient's plea to Extreme Home Makeover to help her build a new house for her family of six, her community pulled together to grant the wish that the show couldn't.
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