Just by getting into the boxing ring at the London Olympics, Sadaf Rahimi will be throwing a few punches in the fight for equal rights for Afghan women. Rahimi, a determined 17-year-old student, wants to become the new face of Afghan women, gaining honor and dignity for herself and other women in her war-torn country and improving their image worldwide.
17 year-old swimmer Missy Franklin is being called the new Michael Phelps, after winning four gold medals and a bronze in London and competing in almost every different stroke. While training overseas, she heard about the tragic shooting at a Batman movie premiere in her hometown of Aurora, Colorado. She vowed to do all she could to inspire her neighbors and friends back home, and her performance last week proves she delivered.
Michael and Margaret Snell of Salsbury, England came to British Columbia for a fishing adventure and, boy, did they find one. On their first day out, their first catch of the day, Michael hooked a Great White Sturgeon weighing 1,100 pounds (500 kilos). Their Canadian guide, Dean Werk from Great River Fishing Adventures, says the 12 feet 4 inch long catch, is likely the largest freshwater fish ever landed in North America.
Rising from the ruins of war to challenge the world's cricketing establishment, Afghanistan's rag-tag team hope to inspire the conflict-ravaged nation with a strong showing at the World Cup in Sri Lanka.
Natasha Tse was born prematurely at 29 weeks with congenital cerebral palsy but starting at age five she used therapeutic riding to re-invent herself as an athlete. She earned Hong Kong a place in the London Paralympics equestrian dressage competition in London this week.
It took twenty-three hours of constant paddling over sometimes rough waves for a youthful trio to make it across Lake Michigan from Wisconsin to Michigan. The two brothers and female friend, ages 19-23 took turns paddling through the night, with the other two riding in the 40-foot support boat that tailed them for the 80-mile journey.
From the lawns of Wimbledon to the lochs of Scotland, all of Britain can celebrate. Andy Murray made it possible Sunday, winning his country's hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to win Wimbledon.
14 Year old Will Thomas is not just shooting hoops. He's using his jump shot, and Operation Hawkeye, to honor and raise money for fallen special operation troops and their families.
An Arab-Jewish hockey team has become an unlikely icebreaker in this remote corner of northern Israel, overcoming barriers of language, culture and conflict.
The 2013 Boston Marathon champion, Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia, gave his championship medal to the City of Boston Sunday on behalf of all the runners and to honor the victims of the bombing that day in April. Lelisa's return to Boston marked yet another admirable gesture witnessed by the city in the weeks following the marathon.
For a breathtaking 23 minutes, famed tightrope artist Nik Wallenda walked on a two-inch steel cable crossing the Grand Canyon, 1500 feet above the ground without a net or tether.
Collecting a hole-in-one on Father's Day is about as good as it gets for a golfing dad, unless his son gets one, too, right afterward. That's exactly what happened when 57-yard-old Lonnie Whitener and his 13-year-old son, according to the Houston Chronicle.