A collection of 40 paintings by an 11-year-old boy has sold for more than a half million dollars (£390,000). Kieron Williamson, from Norfolk, England saw his watercolors, oils and pastels sell on Friday in just minutes.
CNN reported on a child artist prodigy who, despite being raised in an athesitic home, describes her vivid visions from the age of four as coming from God.
Florida violinist Kahane is a brilliant musician at only eight-years-old. She has performed at charity events in the past, but when she heard the devastating earthquake in Haiti had destroyed a music school and crushed the violinist who'd founded it, she wanted to help. She started writing letters to famous violinists asking for money to rebuild the school and instruments to fill it.
At 20, Maria Toorpakai is the best female squash player in Pakistan. But she can't play there. Her family began receiving death threats from the Taliban, a group that equates a woman wearing shorts as an obscenity. In March, she fled Pakistan to live and train in Toronto. Soon, she will be the best in the world.
This week, 21-year-old Sho Yano will complete the journey he began as a 9-year-old college freshman, becoming one of the youngest students in history to receive an M.D. He earned his PhD at age 19 and will now launch a medical career as a pediatric neurologist so he can work with children. (Video)
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Online social networking and internet marketing sites saved a family whose child has leukemia from financial ruin. So far Aidan Reed, 5, and his family have sold more than 4,500 prints of his crayon and marker drawings of monsters and other creepy characters.
In a year when gifts are down for the biggest US charities, three generous donations were featured on the Today show, including a 5-year-old boy who decided to give old toys and forego new ones on his birthday to help the Ronald McDonald House charity.
Teen Canadian superstar singer Justin Bieber will be honored this month along with three other young entertainers for their generous charitable work.
Nine-year-old Joshua Williams proves that big ideas come in small packages. As president of the Joshua's Heart Foundation, the young man is on a mission to alleviate hunger and befriend the elderly. So far, he has fed 7,000 people.
Middle school and high school students from around the country presented their award-winning innovative inventions at the first ever White House Science Fair.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control analyzed 2000-2009 data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey on tobacco use and found a significant decline over the decade.