PPakistan thanked the world Friday for opening its wallets and said more than 20 million flood victims now know that nations and people around the globe are standing with them during the worst disaster the country has ever faced.
Years after the tortured grieving over the death of both her parents, Lynn Hughes started a summer camp for bereaving kids. The non-profit Comfort Zone Camp is designed to bring healing during the beginning of the grieving process. The camp now operates in five states and has served 2,900 children, ages 7-17.
Spencer Conway decided to combine his love of motorbikes with his love for Africa by attempting to solo circumnavigate Africa on two wheels —something that no one has ever been able to achieve. He was robbed, attacked and almost killed, butehe finally arrived back home in the UK having raised $43,500 for Save the Children.
A young woman was placed by the state of Alabama in a nursing home with senior citizens because she had cerebral palsy and no family members who could adequately care for her. A woman saw the story in the newspaper and vowed to get the 21-year-old out of the nursing home and into a real home.
Good news reporter, Steve Hartman believes he can pick at random a name in the phone book and find an inspiring story there: Meet the man who proved Steve to be correct. He is living the American Dream, but in the Middle East
Watch this video of a man in Bermuda who spends all day "spreading the love" on a busy street corner…
Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague e-mailed him about the nonprofit KhanAcademy.org, a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan, an ebullient, articulate Harvard MBA and former hedge fund manager. Gates loved it and began soaking up the videos with his 11-year-old son, Rory.
Main St. Missionary Baptist Church withstood Hurricane Katrina, even with the first floor underwater, and immediately began serving three meals a day to survivors in the east Biloxi neighborhood. It has remained a rock for the community as it struggled to recover from the storm.
At 92 years old (yes, 92), Sidney Harman, audio industry pioneer, philanthropist, author, university professor, and lover of Shakespeare decided to embark on a business venture that lost nearly $30 million last year -- he bought Newsweek magazine.
Close to a million begonia flowers were used to create a huge carpet covering the city plaza in Grand-Place, Brussels. Based on a medieval rug design, craftsmen arranged the carpet by hand, directly onto the square's cobblestones, without any pots or soil.
Revelers in Times Square will reenact a moment captured on film 65 years ago today, when news of a Japanese surrender in World War II reached the streets of New York City and a joyful sailor grabbed a nurse, spontaneously planting a victory kiss.
Entrepreneur Ward Shepherd has brought free wi-fi broadband access to a dirt-poor South Carolina town. "Knowledge is what sets you free," says Shepherd. "Knowledge is what give you an opportunity to excel." WATCH the video below, or at MSNBC...