Top international football players are joining forces in the "11 against Ebola" campaign, featuring Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr, Philipp Lahm and others, to promote 11 simple health messages for West Africans and those who might come in contact with Ebola.
Emmanuel Kelly, a victim and survivor of chemical warfare in Iraq, doesn't know how old he is. But, thanks to his hero, an Australian woman who adopted him and his brother, he managed to overcome disability and tragedy to become a wonderful singer. This video features his heart-wrenching debut on The X Factor, when he sang John Lennon's Imagine.
President Obama's falsetto rendition of Al Green at an Apollo Theater fundraiser last week is now available as a ringtone. His official website is offering a free download of the President singing his favorite line of the soulful hit, Let's Stay Together.
16 year-old Laoise Nolan performs a really cool version of The Cup Song with 600 students (and staff) at a school in Ireland.
Former East London fish seller Muhammad Shahid Nazir shot to fame this month after a video of his fish song went viral attracting more than 6.3 million views: Come on ladies/Come on ladies/One pound fish. He quit market trading after the video became so popular he was offered a recording deal, according to the BBC in early December.
Sgt. Eddie Peoples, 34, was at a Bank of America before a fishing trip with his two sons when a gunman walked in and demanded cash from the tellers. The decorated Iraq vet played it cool until the thug pointed the gun at his son. Florida police later lauded his actions which stopped the robber.
Peace is beginning to flower across Afghanistan with about 5% of Taliban fighters nationwide already surrendering to re-join civil society through the Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program, or APRP, paid for by donors like the United States and Saudi Arabia. People have far more confidence in the future than they did a year ago.
As if the sailor's return home wasn't special enough, something special was waiting for him in the parking lot after USS Hampton docked in San Diego.
A U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. who just returned from Iraq won a million dollars from a scratch-off lottery ticket, at a time when he and his bride were struggling to buy a home.
Corrado Piccoli's sisters had no idea his Purple Heart medal, awarded posthumously after the 20-year-old was killed in action in 1944, was even missing. But 65 years later, after the medal was purchased in an antique store, the buyer had an idea that it belonged to someone special, and vowed to find its original owner.
A 6-year-old Afghan boy born with his bladder outside his body has been reunited with the U.S. soldier who arranged for his rare operation in a New Jersey hospital. When Army Maj. Glenn Battschinger came upon the boy while on foot patrol in Afghanistan, he pitied the frail child who had to constantly hold his leaking bladder in his hand, and resolved to do something
12-year-old Cody Green always admired the strength and courage of the U.S. Marines. Last month, it was the Marines admiring the strength and courage of Cody. To honor his undaunted optimism and long-time struggle with leukemia, during which he beat the cancer into remission three times, the Indiana fifth-grader was made an honorary Marine. But that wasn't enough for Sergeant Mark Dolfini who decided to drive to the hospital in his dress uniform.