A Newfoundland boy sent a letter along with his soccer medal to the Canadian men's 4X100 relay team saying he simply wanted to boost their spirits after they were disqualified from an Olympic bronze medal. His handwritten note garnered national attention after Justyn Warner, a member of the team, tweeted it.
A Newfoundland boy sent a letter along with his soccer medal to the Canadian men's 4X100 relay team saying he simply wanted to boost their spirits after they were disqualified from an Olympic bronze medal. His handwritten note garnered national attention after Justyn Warner, a member of the team, tweeted it.
As Annaleise Carr left the water Sunday, she became the youngest girl ever to swim the 32-mile (52 km) crossing of Lake Ontario, besting her long-time hero Marilyn Bell, who made the first such crossing in 1954 at the age of 16. Her fundraising goal of $50,000 to benefit a camp for kids with cancer was exceeded Sunday while in mid-swim, when she received a single donation of $10,000 to buoy her spirits.
Talk about the ultimate space jam. The song is called I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing), and it's billed as the first space-Earth musical collaboration. It's a very long-distance project from Canadians Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and Chris Hadfield, who currently commands the International Space Station. The song was released in a video Feb 8, 2013.
This 60-year-old dance teacher shows her high school students a few moves in a hip-hop routine to "Uptown Funk."
A woman broke into sobs when she was reunited with her once-paralyzed dog Sammi, after he began prancing up to her following surgery.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got her groove on in South Africa last week, dancing at a party in Johannesburg, as the crowd of attendees cheered along with the country's foreign minister who hosted the dinner.
Because September is National Yoga Month, we are updating a previous story with a handy downloadable infographic to illustrate the 6 best yoga poses for back pain for easy reference. With just a few moves, you can bring your legs, hips and spine into proper alignment, and release tension and pain.
Houston, Texas, has gotten roughly 4,000 homeless people into housing and is on track to eliminate chronic homelessness by the end of 2015.
With the highly successful recycling habits of Swedish households - they sent just 4% of their waste to landfills in 2011 - comes the enviable problem of running out of trash to burn in their national waste-to-energy program.
Prison gardens are a growing trend to rehabilitate inmates while providing fresh food to those in need.
The son of migrant farm workers was compared to Walt Whitman today, as he was named the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Check out this unique stress buster for hectic offices– a ‘library' that loans kittens instead of books.
Scientific studies come and go. But there is evidence that accumulates slowly over many years that support, sometimes ancient, claims that herbs can provide medicinal help for ailments such as stomach upset, hot flashes, depression, nausea and indigestion. The weight of the evidence clearly shows that these 16 herbs, some of which are already in your kitchen, are safe (with certain caveats) and effective, and deserve a place in your medicine cabinet.
Miss Piggy was honored for her contributions to feminism with a major award Thursday and gave a rousing speech to fellow women, saying, "We rock!"
It's National Doughnut Day, but do you know where and why you can get free doughnuts today?
Today is the day where we stop thinking about what we don't have, and focus on all that we are blessed to experience and enjoy.
In an ironic twist, an ex-con has given a job to the retired policeman 8 years after the cop helped get his former foe the position.
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