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.
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Elementary school kids put on suits and ties and learn lessons in life that will help them succeed as men.
Target will roll out "Caroline's Carts," specially designed shopping carts for special needs children and adults, nationwide in the U.S. next month.
Taiwan's new president, an attorney with two cats who enjoys a nightly glass of wine, joins a small group of about two-dozen world leaders who are women.
For people who can't go out into the natural world, this group brings nature to anyone stuck inside - like the sick, the elderly or Alzheimer's patients.
Steve Sparks is a former white supremacist who denounced his former gang of haters to pursue a relationship with a black woman. To this day, members of the Aryan Brotherhood in Oklahoma have vowed retribution. Sparks simply realized he was tired of hating.
Her opponent congratulated Yingluck Shinawatra for winning Thailand's first general election since 2007, an election that many hope will bring an end to years of unrest between two political factions that climaxed last year with protests that turned deadly.
A court decision has greatly expanded women's rights in India, allowing them to make family business, property, and inheritance decisions.
Despite rising worries through much of the year, New York City reported a decline in its crime rate, making 2015 one of the best years on record.
This woman is still going strong nearly two decades after learning she has terminal cancer.
A six-year study of Britain's drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decriminalization. The report by the UK Drug Policy Commission says no serious rise in consumption is likely if possession of small amounts of controlled substances are allowed.
A crop of Hemp, the non-psychoactive cannabis used to produce wax, rope, cloth, oil and more, has been planted in Southeast Colorado -- for the first time in the United States in almost six decades.
After treatments by some of the country's best neurologists and most powerful pharmaceuticals failed, families whose children suffer with severe epilepsy are moving to Colorado to get marijuana oil, a miracle-like treatment that successfully improves catatonic kids.
Since this country virtually eliminated punishment for illicit drugs 14 years ago, addiction rates have been cut in half.
Harry Potter fan Shona Macleod, 15, decided to contact JK Rowling in her effort to raise £950 for a park bench where she could talk to her pal Kieran Goulding since his death in a car crash. The teen was absolutely amazed to receive a full set of signed Harry Potter books along with a handwritten letter.
A reformed skinhead, Bryon Widner was desperate to rid himself of the racist tattoos that covered his face — so desperate that he turned to former enemies for help, and was willing to endure months of pain.
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.
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