An Indonesian mountaineer who faced death threats while battling illegal loggers and a Bangladeshi lawyer who fought to keep old rusty ships from being dumped in her homeland are among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards.
Tom Porter says he doesn't think he's a hero, but he'll soon have a bronze medal that says he is. The Texas resident was awarded a Carnegie Hero medal for pulling a 1-year-old girl from a burning vehicle. 20 others were honored as heroes this week
Firefighters from Aldinga's Country Fire Service returned exhausted from fighting wild fires in the tough conditions of Adelaide Hills this morning. Sacrificing their lives to help save homes and livestock, these South Australian firefighters, many of them volunteers, arrived back home to find a message posted on the wall, a Thank-You from their fellow citizens.
As superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City Monday night, more than 10 feet of water flooded seven buildings of the NYU Medical Center. The facility lost power at the height of the storm and 20 newborn babies clinging to life from the neonatal intensive care unit needed to be carried down nine flights in dark stairways to waiting ambulances by heroic nurses and hospital staff using battery-operated life-saving equipment.
The Creative Director for Animals Australia made a video montage of beautiful humanitarian rescues that were on YouTube. She added some soaring music and it became a 4-minute antidote to all the depressing news lately.
There may come a time when your world may be without anyone you admire or idolize. You may have lived a long life and they are all passed on, had your previous role models exposed as flawed human beings, or maybe you have just become numb to people who are outstanding yet, you can't see them through the darkness. I've been at every stop along the way and I am here to tell you, there is no shortage of heroes in our world today.
Librarian Scott Bonner, known as the "quiet hero," will receive the Lemony Snicket Prize for his during the riots last year in Ferguson, Missouri.
Dan Kennedy was driving to work Tuesday morning near Salt Lake City when he saw a huge orange bag fall off the back of an armored Brink's truck. When he stopped to investigate, he found wads and wads of $50s and $100s — thousands of dollars stacked in plastic bags.
A whale came to these boaters asking for help. He was grateful enough to pose for pictures afterwards.
A 95-year-old Jewish man saved from the Nazis as a child is now funding the flight of Christians seeking refuge from ISIS, paying forward a ‘debt' he owes.
Imagine taking your little girl to the dentist for a routine cleaning and having it lead directly to a 9-hour major medical surgery the following Friday. The surgery saved 11-year-old Journee's life and it was due to the diligence of a dental hygienist who was concerned because the whites of the her eyes seemed yellow.
112 million Americans will watch Mark Herzlich take the field tomorrow, a rookie linebacker and cancer survivor whose story has inspired Super Bowl fans across the country. Two years ago he was told he might never walk again.
In a time of anti-Islamic sentiment in Britain, it is important to remember that in the last century alone, hundreds of thousands of Muslims volunteered to fight for Britain — especially during World Wars I and II — with many sacrificing their lives. 70 years ago marked the death of an especially gutsy and unlikely war hero — a woman who was a Muslim princess.
Somewhere in Kansas a Powerball lottery player shines as a hero for sending their winning ticket anonymously by mail to a local hospital.
Normally, Babu does not enjoy taking walks. But on March 11, minutes after the earthquake in Japan, the elderly shih tzu, insisted on leaving the house. She stubbornly headed for a nearby hill rather than taking their usual route, and minutes after they climbed the hill, a devastating wall of mud and water slammed into the town flattening everything below them.
Smoke in the Melbourne house was so thick that, at first, firefighters thought they had spotted a soft toy. On closer inspection it was revealed that they had found Leo the dog, who had refused to leave the house choosing instead to guard a cardboard box containing 4 new-born kittens.
A pit bull — the canine most often cited as vicious in news reports and the most abandoned and euthanized dog in the country — overcame fire and smoke to save his family and win an award as a national hero.
A Boston area mom who relented to get a puppy after her children begged to bring him home a year ago, is thankful she did after the 15-month-old dog saved her family from a raging house fire.
Suu Kyi received two standing ovations inside Oslo's city hall as she gave her long-delayed acceptance speech 21 years after she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her unflagging support for democracy in the face of arrest and imprisonment in her military-controlled homeland of Myanmar. The 66-year-old champion of political freedom praised the power of her 1991 Nobel honor both for saving her from the depths of personal despair and shining an enduring spotlight on injustices in distant Myanmar.
In one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, one grandmother has opened her door and invited gang members to come inside. She hoped that by providing them with support and a place to go, she would ensure that her own daughter and other kids would be safe and able to focus on their future instead of gangs.
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