Software giant SAP yesterday announced a new employment push to hire more people with autism after a successful pilot program showed increases in office productivity and cohesiveness. "Only by employing people who think differently will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century," said a company official.
Australia's Festival of Lights is transforming Sydney's famous landmarks using wild imagination and cutting edge 3-D projectors beaming images from a distance. The evening lit sails of the iconic Opera House overlooking the harbor suddenly appeared to break out in cracks and holes, with a giant woman tip-toeing across the surface.
Buzzfeed threw together some tiny video clips of people doing amazing things, like turning one's morning toast-making experience into sublime artistic expression, and waterskiing on one's hands.
To the Nebraska college football team and fans, this play was truly one of your finest moments the school has ever seen. Little Jack Hoffman, who has cancer, led a very special Husker play into the end zone with the ball.
When the Philadelphia 76ers heard the news story on TV about an autistic boy in Mt. Airy who had his basketball hoop stolen, they sprang into action to replace the hoop, and more.
Generally, you wouldn't want to hear that an NFL player went out on date with an eighth-grader. But that's not the case with this story out of Morgantown, W.Va. That's where Chicago Bears rookie J.T. Thomas stepped in and took the girl, who suffers from spina bifida, to her prom.
The highest-scoring American-born player in National Hockey League history officially bid adieu to the game on Friday. In a tearful speech, Mike Modano announced his retirement having scored 1,374 points, as the all-time goal-scoring and points leader of all American-born players.
Last week, Kansas City Royals baseball player Jeff Francoeur took time out from batting practice to say hello to an excited young fan -- a child with autism. According to a heartwarming thank-you note from the child's mother, Francouer signed the 7-year-old boy's hat, chatted with him, and posed for a picture. This isn't the first time that he has won admiration from fans for his quirky good deeds.
A fearful refugee, Guor Marial ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labour camp. Now he will get to run at the Olympics after winning an appeal to the International Olympic Committee. The 28-year-old marathoner was cleared by the IOC to compete at the London Games under the Olympic flag.
World champion Lolo Jones will be making news this weekend, showing off her speed and fighting spirit as she makes her third attempt to qualify for Team USA with the ultimate goal of winning gold at the 2012 London Games to make her mom proud of the champion she created. I always wanted to use track as a way to get out of poverty, she says.
It was hope in the form of a 12-year-old boy that saved Vincent Shao from sinking beneath the waves and drowning at Waihi Beach on Saturday. I thought I was going to die, the 32-year-old Auckland resident said after he lost his footing in waist-deep water while checking crab pots, and succumbed to a rip current.
Harvard pulled off a huge upset to start college basketball's March Madness, but all eyes have turned southward to a little school with a lot of confidence: No. 15-seed Florida Gulf Coast is in the midst of what could be the greatest Cinderella story in NCAA tournament history. In just their second year of postseason eligibility, the FGCU Eagles are headed to the Sweet Sixteen, having defeated No. 2-seed Georgetown and No. 7-seed San Diego.
Registration has surged for the annual race since Monday and participants are being encouraged to honor the victims of the explosions by wearing the Boston Marathon colors of yellow and blue.
Two brothers with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have formed a special relationship with the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, one that resembles a loving family. Jacob Jarvis, 14, and his younger brother Noah Studebaker, 7, each have the disease, the most common fatal childhood genetic disorder. The siblings have been friends of the Ohio State coach, […]
The Washington DC pro hockey team is rallying around a young fan who was critically injured in a sledding accident.
A 95-year-old retired dentist has set a new world record for his age group in the 200 meter indoor sprint, knocking a massive 2.4 seconds off the previous record. But he's only been running for a few years. Bodybuilding and never retiring, says Charles Eugster, are the secrets to his success.
Houston Astros' player George Springer is using his down time wisely, helping kids at a camp cope with stuttering, like he once did.
Five years after a soldier was given a gift that raised his spirit during days of war, Jackson Smith paid back his best friend Brian.
Since 2009 street artist Christiaan Nagel has placed over a hundred giant mushrooms on derelict rooftops around the London's East End to be enjoyed and photographed by passers-by. Unauthorized art in public places is booming in austerity Britain, as public funding dries up
Chinese rhinoceros horn cups brought to the Antiques Roadshow on Saturday in Tulsa became the highest-value appraisal ever made by the PBS television show in its 16 year history. The unidentified man, who started collecting the carved cups inexpensively and had no idea of their worth, was told they were valued at 1-1.5 million dollars.
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