Schwinn is giving away free bikes to needy kids for Christmas and you can give one too! Just send a free e-card featuring the Schwinn Bell Choir playing holiday tunes, like Jingle Bells, on the bells from their bicycles. For every card send, a bike will be donated. The more you share, the more they […]
Taiwan's Justice Ministry offers a free forensic service for repairing damaged cash, which is lucky for Lin, the man who accidentally shredded $6,600 last month. Nicknamed the jigsaw expert a specialist took just seven days to piece together the remains of 200 $1,000 Thai bills that were mistakenly dropped into a shredding machine.
An online video series begins today telling the story of Kia Scherr, a wife and mother, who has forgiven the unforgiveable. Her husband and 13-year-old daughter were murdered two years ago in the Mubai terrorist attacks, while they huddled together under a table in the Oberoi Hotel restaurant.
The same TV news helicopter pilot who four years ago pushed a deer on an icy pond to safety using the wind from his rotors, has once again made national news saving a trapped calf -- pushing with the same big wind gust, after the animal lost all footing and was stuck on the ice.
The civilians behind the National Kidney Registry website have organized transplants for record numbers of kidney patients over the last three years. Today, the momentum will continue with the largest kidney chain to date, a swap that is expected to save 28 lives, thanks to strangers paying it forward.
People say they've been getting slowly happier. In 45 of 52 countries, happiness has risen during the past 30 years. This coincides with people getting richer. Contrary to myth, rich countries have slightly happier citizens than poor countries. What is it about prosperity that brings happiness?
After her brother died in Britain a woman in her 70's was cleaning out his flat and came across a dusty oriental vase propping up books amid cobwebs on the man's tall book shelf. One month later when it was put up for auction in London, it sold for a record $69 million (plus fees) and was called unbelievably rare, with nothing like it outside the Palace Museum in Beijing.
What others see as an urban disaster zone, Nafa Khalaf views as a land of opportunity. The Motor City, he says, gave him chances that would have been inconceivable in his native Iraq. The Arab community is growing and prospering alongside Detroit's decay as one of the largest concentrations of Arabs outside the Middle East.
French photographer Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika feeling lonely and depressed. To cheer her up, he suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, and locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed, but once they got rolling, she couldn't stop smiling.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $50 million to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The gift, announced Wednesday night by the Smithsonian, sets aside $30 million to create the Youth Access Endowment to reach underserved youth
Three New Zealand teenagers have been rescued after 50 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean in a tiny boat. The trio survived by drinking rainwater and sharing raw fish and a seagull that landed in their boat.
A mother and daughter thought the reason they were invited as special halftime guests at an NFL Titans game was their winning Veteran's Day essay. But, 101st Airborne soldier Mark Foster surprised his wife Jodi and daughter Kayla with an on field homecoming in front of 70,000 cheering people Sunday.