Two Virginia veterinarians reported missing while hiking in Glacier National Park were found alive yesterday, after their families raised the alarm Friday when they failed to catch a flight home. It took 50 people laboring in wintry conditions to find them.
Australian authorities are thanking the crew of an Air Canada flight for helping to locate a sailor in distress off the country's east coast. Luckily, one of the passengers on an Air Canada Flight en route from Vancouver to Sydney had binoculars.
A New York college student who started a blog on self-acceptance in order to help other young women deal with body image taunts has become a viral hero to many for her frank and powerful online discussion about her weight.
A US soldier who was involved in a firefight in Iraq is seeking redemption and forgiveness from an Iraqi family that lost three members in that chaotic gun battle. In the midst of the battle, his unit opened fire on three cars killing the drivers, all members of the Kachadoorian family who drove into the intersection. Since then, the Marine has become like a son to the family, visiting several times and talking often by phone.
They say a problem shared is a problem halved. Now a team of psychologists in the USA has performed a series of studies that suggest sharing your good news multiplies its benefits for your happiness and longer-term life satisfaction.
126 years to the day since the copper lady was first unveiled in New York City's harbor, and after a year-long renovation, the Statue Of Liberty is set to receive visitors once again inside her crown. A ceremony on October 28 marked the reopening of the statue's crown and new access to a lower observation deck for the first time to visitors with disabilities.
An expanding body of research suggests people's moral compasses are active far earlier than previously thought. Young children and even babies demonstrate attributes such as generosity, empathy and a sense of justice, indicating that far from being born as clean slates, humans seem to have innate altruistic tendencies and are able to make moral choices at a remarkably young age.
Bleary-eyed drivers entering Washington, DC on Monday mornings, are jolted into happiness by people waving with signs with optimistic slogans from the side of the road. Held by 29-year-old Massoud Adibpour and 4 other volunteers, the signs were scrawled with uplifting messages: "Honk if you love someone!"; "Be happy"; "Don't be so hard on yourself"; and, "Smile!"
A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released. Not only that, he found the bottle while skippering the same fishing boat which had set the previous record, the Shetland-based vessel Copious.
The Davis community in California with help from Giant Bicycles has come together to create a heartwarming final chapter for a cross-country bicycle rider in route for her charity, Bike and Build, which raises money for low cost housing projects in the U.S.
Carmen Dell'Orefice has spent her life in front of the lens since gracing the cover of Vogue magazine in 1947, and as the world's first octogenarian model, she is still turning heads, most recently on the catwalk for Norisol Ferrari during New York Fashion Week on Monday.
The heart-wrenching exchange between a father whose son died in a car crash and the teenage drunk driver who was behind the wheel left witnesses in a Wyoming courtroom in tears on Monday. The victim's father pleaded with the judge to show leniency.
Mike and Angie Gagnon, their disabled daughter and two young grandkids were thrilled with the renovations and editions on their home provided by 150 businesses in an Extreme Makeover project organized by Cornerstone Seventh Day Adventist Church. Although it was one of the church's biggest projects yet - working at least 18 hour days for 10 days straight - "it's totally worth it," said Pastor Steven Mirkovich.
When Michael Young died in 2000, shortly after his 100th birthday, Perry was a little embarrassed to receive an inheritance from the racist relative. He gave the bulk of it to his daughter, treated himself to a good suit, and then resolved to have some fun with the remaining £10,000. More than a decade later, he is still doing so.
A Maryland woman didn't recognize the priceless painting when she bought it in a box of knick knacks for seven dollars in a West Virginia flea market. It turned out to be a 1879 Renoir, the impressionist masterpiece that's been missing since the 1920s, entitled Paysage Bords de Seine.
By the very nature of their business, every Los Angeles traffic cop can expect to get at least a few complaints every year -- especially from people who are just angry about getting caught speeding. Which is why the police chief was stunned when he discovered that during the last 20 years -- through the last 25,000 traffic stops -- Sheriff's Deputy Elton Simmons has not had one complaint filed against him. Not one. CBS tagged along on his rounds to figure out how he does it.
Gary Currie was laid out on the ground, presumed dead, when fellow Liverpool supporter Dr. Glyn Phillips spotted him and spent 15 minutes performing CPR, determined that Gary, then just 18, deserved a chance to live. Now in a moving interview with the Sunday Mirror, Gary reveals how he has struck up a lifetime bond with his saviour, since that day 23 years ago.
Increasingly tinkerers and hobbyists are proving they are more than equal to the corporate world, and their efforts are challenging the traditional methods of manufacturing. From the 15-year-old high school student who created a pancreatic cancer test using Google as a research tool, to people making money from home-made electronic devices, citizens are most definitely doing it for themselves.
Last Saturday a 22 year-old woman performed 'the impossible' when she found her father unconscious having been crushed by his car which slipped off its jack. The former basketball player managed to pick up the BMW weighing a ton and a half and shove it away from her father's body. When she discovered he was not breathing, her skills as a former lifeguard kicked in and she brought his limp body back to life.
Massive wildfires have blackened about a million acres in southeast Oregon, killing countless cattle and horses and leaving no grazing land for struggling ranches that remain. But help is on the way to struggling ranchers from the business community and fellow cattlemen. A convoy of 17 donated tractor-trailer trucks loaded with 500 tons of hay left Burns, Oregon yesterday morning in route to fire-affected families and businesses.
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