Jaime Thurston aims to be the catalyst for change in one person's life every week this year. She achieved that BIG TIME last week when a gift was delivered to a family half way around the world, because they were struggling through two cancer diagnoses at the same time.
Chamindu Amarsinghe was speechless this week to hear he will get $81,597 of the cash he found while cleaning the toilets at a Melbourne television station.
Over the past 30 years, the charity Good 360 has redistributed over $7 billion dollars worth of products to the poor. The online marketplace makes it easy and profitable for corporations to donate unused surplus to charities, rather than storing it or shipping it to a landfill.
An Australian farmer is training shelter dogs at his "Truffle Dog University" to sniff out the expensive delicacy.
Lucas Jatoba was a Brazilian searching for a way to celebrate his 30th birthday. Since moving to Australia he has fallen in love with the people. So he decided to give 30 present to 30 strangers in Sydney and his friends made a video.
The sixth annual Happiness and Its Causes conference in Brisbane, Australia featured four days of lectures and workshops featuring some of the world's best known happiness gurus, including the Dalai Lama. The successful conference, attended by 2000 people paying big bucks, is just the latest evidence of the recent boom in all things happiness.
Cast members from "The Sound of Music" surprise Australian commuters with a flash mob performance of "Do-Ri-Mi" aboard a train in Brisbane.
These skating tricks are radical when they're being performed by humans – let alone cats.
A pair of Maremma dogs have spent 10 years guarding a penguin flock once decimated by predators. They became saviors to the smallest penguins in the world.
This heart-shaped solar plant will show love for the earth by keeping millions of tons of carbon out of the atmosphere.
A man who works at the Department of Transport in Queensland, Australia, was surveying flooded streets and came upon a sight he just had to share.
A puppy with the same form of dwarfism as a 5-year-old boy has given him new confidence to accept his condition and stand up to bullies.
So many students arrive in Australian universities in July surprised by the cold winter, so one school has knit a community together for a loving solution.
A retiree plans to airlift 80 rhinos 6,800 miles from Africa to Australia to put an ocean between them and the poachers.
This year's list of the top countries where people are most likely to give to charity and help a stranger has a surprising new name at number one.
When an Australian woman accidentally injured this tree frog, she leapt through bureaucratic hurdles to help him hop a flight to a frog hospital.
A Northern Irish woman only discovered in 1989 that she had an older sister—and finally embraced her for the first time at Dublin airport Tuesday.
When a politician claimed a tax break would help wealthy people buy $6,000 toasters, he got into a jam and a working class hero got a lot of bread.
This 20-year-old model wasn't just a pretty face – he was also a heroic rescuer who jumped into the freezing ocean to save a tiny drowning dog.
Daniel McDonnell was only wearing his underwear when he found a man fleeing a hit-and-run site – but that didn't stop him from chasing the crook down.
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