Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's giving up $800,000 — his own salary for the next three years — in hopes his act of generosity will help restore faith in the government he once taught students to respect.
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.
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.
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.
A couple who met on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle got married on that same flight six years later in a special ceremony for the bride's mother.
Seventy years after they last saw one another, an American veteran and his English, wartime girlfriend reunite for Valentine's Day, thanks to strangers.
Millions of wildflowers are blooming all at once in Death Valley National Park in a once in a decade "superbloom."
These parents welcome their two new sons to America with joyful tears and big hugs, more than three years after adopting them from the Congo.
The donations poured in when this five-year-old gave up birthday presents so he could help the rescue animals at his local shelters.
This school included an encouraging letter with every set of exam scores it mailed out reminding students what is more important than tests.
This record-setting crocheted blanket would cover two football fields with plenty of wool left over, and will now warm thousands of needy people.
Good customer service can lead to great tips — but this gratuity left restaurant staff stunned and speechless.
A UK grandmother who lost all her haor was inspired to get a tattoo that resembles dark curly locks, after becoming depressed and frustrated by wigs and hats. She says it's changed her life and made her happier than she's ever been.
George Clooney adopts a three-year-old terrier no one else wanted because of its birth defects.
South Korean civic groups received the okay to deliver eight trucks of food aid to North Korea Friday. The 180 tons of flour is being delivered to hospitals, schools and day care centers with the hope that the measure will also lead to a softening of strained inter-Korean relations, following the passing of North Korea's leader.
In one of the last surviving lowland forests in Madagascar, an area half the size of Manhattan, researchers found 36 frogs which look to be new to science.
The homicide rate in Los Angeles is the lowest it's been since 1967. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced there were 297 homicides in Los Angeles last year, a huge drop from the more than 1,000 slayings in 1992, the height of a massive drug epidemic.
In an Afghan capital scarred by years of war, a young Afghan woman has bet $1 million that her countrymen could use a little fun. She started the country's first bowling alley and it has become a symbol of hope.
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