For amateur astronomers, discovering a supernova is a significant and rare feat. For a 10-year-old amateur to do it — well, that's astronomical. Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, N.B. is basking in the spotlight after noticing what was later determined to be a magnitude 17 supernova on New Year's Eve.
Two young men of color, Mustafa Said and Chris Patino, bravely intervened in a savage stabbing in a grocery store to save a teen girl's life, as others stood stunned and unable to help.
Jackie Evancho, the child wonder soprano who took second place on the fifth season of America's Got Talent, performed for the Obama family and the public outdoors during the lighting of the National Christmas Tree just outside the White House grounds.
Instead of Hollywood celebrities accepting trophies at the Nickelodeon HALO Awards, the stars are giving the awards -- to some amazing, accomplished teens working to make the world a better place. And, in an awards show twist, they surprise the unsuspecting teens on videotape, then, present the awards -- all hosted by actor Nick Cannon. he second annual TeenNick HALO Awards will present big prize money to four teens and let them hang out with stars like Mariah Carey, Ashton Kutcher, Rosario Dawson, and Wyclef Jean.
15-year-old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz kid in Sierra Leone who has invented or manufactured his own batteries, generators and transmitters for radio broadcasting using spare parts he gathered from trash bins. Completely self-taught, the boy was invited by MIT to visit America recently to expand his horizons.
Quvenzhane Wallis could make Oscar history tonight by taking home the Best Actress statue for her role in the critically acclaimed drama Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which she became the youngest actor ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was 6 years old when she played the part of Hushpuppy, the indomitable child prodigy and survivalist who lives with her dying father in the backwoods squalor of a Louisiana bayou.
She grew up in Kampala, one of the poorest places on earth. She couldn't read or write. As a child, she scrounged for food each day, and without money for school fees, she lived on the streets. But a chance encounter with a Ugandan chess coach turned her into a rising international chess star, the subject of a book -- and the protagonist in a future Disney movie.
6-year old Emily Bear was born to play piano -- and started playing at age two. She has wowed audiences, and recently performed at the White House. She even composes her own music.
At 20, Maria Toorpakai is the best female squash player in Pakistan. But she can't play there. Her family began receiving death threats from the Taliban, a group that equates a woman wearing shorts as an obscenity. In March, she fled Pakistan to live and train in Toronto. Soon, she will be the best in the world.
This week, 21-year-old Sho Yano will complete the journey he began as a 9-year-old college freshman, becoming one of the youngest students in history to receive an M.D. He earned his PhD at age 19 and will now launch a medical career as a pediatric neurologist so he can work with children. (Video)
Starbucks will start giving leftover, ready-to-eat meals from its 7,600 stores to charities that feed the hungry – that's roughly 50 million meals by 2021.
When a supermarket manager found out the reason a man was shoplifting, he chose to give the thief a job– and money –instead of jail time.
This college student mows lawns for free to help out the elderly and disabled and in the process, is teaching values to teens.
Expanding waistlines present a challenge for middle aged adults -- and for their kids -- who want to enjoy comfort foods and salty snacks on football's Super Bowl Sunday. With these five recipes, your game day menu can be delicious and healthy -- or, at least, partially healthy.
A young singer who slept outside during a talent competition was so inspired by the homeless men he met that he donated his winnings to a shelter.
After received nearly 1,500 nominations for its 2006 Build-A-Bear Workshop Huggable Heroes program, twelve inspiring kids have been recognized for their outstanding efforts to change the world. Welland Burnside, 18, starting Suitcases for Kids, so that children moving from one foster home to another wouldn't have to carry their belongings in black garbage bags.
A good Samaritan and the police search for homeless man to reunite him with his inheritance.
A waitress who has picked up the tab for firefighters and troops does it again for a pair of grieving parents.
A man living on the streets came across thousands of dollars twice in the past month and has given it all away.
A teenager who posted pictures of a dress online so she could sell it, had to defend herself against some faceless cyber-bullies calling her ugly and fat. But the Tennessee Facebook community came to her defense, not only by posting sweet compliments on her beauty, but donating thousands of dollars for a new spring dress for her senior prom.
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