At the White House yesterday President Obama honored this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor. "I have to say, just looking around the room, this is a packed house, which is a testament to how cool this group is," chuckled the President, whose broadest grin came as he bestowed the medal upon the shoulders of Bob Dylan.
In 1985, Stan Brock started a nonprofit, Remote Area Medical. Since then, the all-volunteer group has held more than 663 medical clinics worldwide, providing free health care to half a million people, particularly in America where large swaths of population have no dental, eye or general health care.
Thanks to the efforts of the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), there are now 64 endangered whooping cranes migrating across the skies of eastern North America for the first time in more than a century using their eastern ancestral route.
Inspector James Guida has been in the NYPD for 30 years. He was assigned to command troubled precincts, and for the last four years logged an increase in arrests and hundreds of successful search warrants. While battling the drug scourge, he has been fighting cancer.
Afghanistan, with more than a million orphans, has been called the worst place to be a child. But one woman is trying to improve the lives of Afghan orphans and change the sobering statistics. The 28-year-old had a turbulent childhood herself, living in refugee camps before returning to her country to found the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, which creates safe and progressive orphanages.
13,000 low-income workers in Pakistan are getting nearly-free health care thanks to Asher Hasan, a successful surgeon who left the US in 2007 to create his micro-insurance program, Naya Jeevan.
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.
The Purpose Prize honors "what may be a new trend -- retirees taking on some of the country's biggest social problems." The five winners of the first-ever Purpose Prize, announced today, all 60 years or older, will split half a million dollars.
Who is the Greatest Canadian? After being hospitalized at the age of 10 and threatened with the loss of his leg due to his family's inability to pay for specialized care, Tommy Douglas followed a life path into politics and refined his skills as a fiery speaker.
A Lemonade Stand in Maryland, USA raised money to save 4000 acres of Guyana rainforest. Alex Rice and his Cub Scout Troop raised $350.00 that was matched by Conservation International
The Obama administration said Thursday that it would not challenge laws legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington state as long as those states strongly restrict sales to minors, prevent exports to other states and keep it off of federal lands.
A UK school in a deprived area has jumped from the bottom 25 per cent of schools nationally to just outside the top 5 per cent over the last three years after letting pupils pick a Harry Potter theme for lessons."
"A schoolgirl's idea for a scheme to plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales was launched. Parents will receive a certificate and notice of where the tree has been planted."
The United Arab Emirates became the first Gulf state to name an ambassador to Iraq -- a move that is hoped will encourage other Arab states to follow.
The United Nations refugee agency has restored 134 primary schools in northern Uganda, allowing thousands of children to return to classes, after the damage and destruction caused by two decades of conflict between Government forces and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
Uganda is kickstarting a rehabilitation plan for the country's conflict-torn northern region by injecting $606 million in building roads and schools, setting up businesses to stimulate economic growth.
Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army signed a formal cease-fire with the government on Feb. 24 and are moving toward a March deadline for the final peace deal that would disarm the group, ending an insurgency that has lasted more than two decades and killed thousands.
A new breed of rice that can grow in the drier uplands instead of traditional wetlands has doubled the country's food production in only four years offering hope in the struggle to overcome Uganda's food crisis.
"South Korea on Sunday hailed North Korea's announced shutdown of a plutonium-producing reactor as an 'encouraging' move which will hopefully speed up its nuclear disarmament."
North and South Korea have agreed to start regular rail freight services across their heavily fortified border next month for the first time in more than half a century.
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