Cognitive motor training helps in the fight against Alzheimer's and dementia, as demonstrated for the first time in a study by an international team of researchers. A dementia diagnosis turns the world upside down, not only for the person affected but also for their relatives, as brain function gradually declines. Those affected lose their ability […]
Meet the teen who has carried out a random act of kindness EVERY day since the start of the pandemic—helping more than 2,000 people and raising over $53,000. 18-year-old Sebbie Hall started his giving mission when he realized some people lacked the technology to contact friends during the first pandemic lockdown. The selfless teen wanted […]
Christmas wreaths have been hung in the beautiful Georgian New Town of Edinburgh. Take a look at them here.
A 13-year old with a metal detector has discovered 65 bronze axes and other objects that date to 1,300 BCE, and has become a bit famous.
The RAF and Zero-Petroleum have received a Guinness World Record for the First zero-emissions flight powered by a synthetic jet fuel.
Many animals can be found in the Thames River, which has recovered enormously since it was declared biologically dead in 1957.
Brits have revealed their best-loved Christmas traditions, including watching festive films, wearing Christmas jumpers—and tucking into turkey sandwiches on Boxing Day. A survey of 2,000 adults found Christmas dinner to be the top tradition over the festive period, while listening to Christmas songs and putting a mince pie out for Santa on Christmas Eve also […]
Arriving Friday at the Tan Hill Pub, sixty guests got trapped by Winter Storm Arwen for three days, and loved every minute.
An 8-mile long wall of over 10,000 cave paintings was discoverd in Colombia, and is being dubbed the Sistine Chapel of the Ancients.
In a "spur of the moment" decision an 86-year-old widow has hired an entire pub to host a Christmas lunch for herself and up to 50 lonely strangers. After 12 years of eating Christmas dinner alone, the woman reserved every table in The Lamb and Flag pub in Devon at a cost of £1,000 for food and wine.
An 22-year-old Lancashire art student has raised over £32,000 for a homeless man, after he offered her his last £3 so that she could get a taxi home safely. Dominique Harrison-Bentzen declined his generous offer, but was so moved by the gesture that she started a campaign to raise enough money to help him get a flat. She called on her friends to each donate £3 in his honor.
When Frankie-Rose Lea was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor in August experts said her best chance of surviving was immediate proton beam therapy, but that would cost £160,000. Her parents put their house up for immediate sale, saying they would rather "live in a box" than fail to exhaust every possibility to save Frankie-Rose. Now they won't have to go homeless thanks to the generosity of people in the UK.
Philanthropy is often associated with millionaires. The Biscuit Fund is an anonymous army of around 50 volunteers who are mainly on low incomes – and have met through social media - who give money to desperate people they read about.
Jenny Baker was out last weekend in north-east London and met a very sweet homeless man named Michael. What started as an innocent meeting led to actions by Jenny and other generous strangers, that will completely change his life forever.
From the 'Hindenburg' to a humanitarian ship capable of eco-friendly relief drops, rescues, and turning into an instant floating hospital.
When a young woman found herself stranded on dark streets, a homeless man found her a safe place to stay and changed her outlook toward the less fortunate.
The third largest retailer in the world has taken a revolutionary step towards ending hunger in Europe.
His death at 99, one of the last survivors of successful British battles of World War II, might have been a lonely service in an almost empty chapel. But on Monday, after a newspaper appeal led to an internet campaign highlighting the forgotten war veteran, hundreds of people who never knew him came to pay their respects at his funeral – poignantly held at 11am on Armistice Day, 11/11
Ali Abbas, who had lost his home and entire family during a botched US bombing raid in Iraq when he was 12, lost both his arms and suffered serious burns. But today, since being fitted with artificial arms in a British Hospital, the 21-year-old lives in prosperous south-west London, is attempting to set up a charity for limbless children, and has married a childhood friend.
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.
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