With gold prices more than $1,100 an ounce, it's "like visions of sugar plums" when gold coins are discovered by the ringing bell Santas who count their donations after a long day of volunteering at shopping malls and on street corners. With the season only two weeks old, anonymous gifts of gold for the Salvation Army charity are showing up in red kettles across the country
After France called for strengthening security during Christmas worship services, a group of 12 Muslim men stood outside one church offering protection.
It took a month of planning and sign language trainings, all to surprise a hearing-impaired young man in Turkey. His sister teamed up with an ad agency in a grand scheme to let her brother feel what it would be like to have no barriers to communication.
A woman who escaped a wildfire with her life was devastated to lose her most prized possessions in the flight but has a reason to be grateful this holiday, thanks to a local youth. Deb was fleeing in her four-door sedan from the Pinery bushfire in South Australia in late November. She was carrying […]
Footage from a traffic camera overlooking a busy freeway in Santiago, Chile captured a dog performing a heroic act — pulling an injured friend from oncoming traffic.
Even in these tough times, it is becoming "downright common" for Starbucks customers at this drive-thru window to pay the bill for the car behind them. One cashier has even seen 15 cars of kindness in a row... KUSA reports in this video from Loveland, Colorado
A settlement has been reached in a U.S. lawsuit with Warner/Chappell Music over the copyright to "Happy Birthday to You" that will put one of the world's most recognizable songs in the public domain, according to court papers filed last week. A Chief U.S. District Judge in Los Angeles ruled that Warner/Chappell, and its music […]
This 77-yr-old grandmother is making her neighborhood a better place because she doesn't back down from trouble.
Women in Saudi Arabia will be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah announced yesterday. He also will appoint women to the all-male national advisory council.
It's a great time of year to remind ourselves how we can reinforce and encourage kindness and gratitude in our kids. December brings many opportunities for this…
Country star Jimmy Wayne got interested in music when a kind stranger gave him a guitar for Christmas. Now an adult, he help other kids in need during the holiday.
A house made of littered bottles filled with sand and reinforced with concrete has given a Bolivian family a much-needed sturdy dwelling while combatting trash build-up. Ten more homes are planned with an eye toward tourism.