Members of the Chinese community in Oklahoma and West Virginia have decided to take direct action to help children whose schools crumbled in the May Earthquake in China by building a new safe school
US troops are helping a blind iraqi girl who needs surgery. She will be able to see her mother for the first time thanks to a world-class surgeon and the American soldiers who wanted to help and found donations.
Nine cubs, and an adult lion and a tiger, rescued from bleak Romanian zoos sniffed the grass and began purring loudly, taking their first steps onto African soil, thanks to Austrian-based animal welfare organisation Vier Pfoten (Four Paws). (NBC News)
One man has built 1.2 million affordable hygienic toilets throughout India and helped 60,000 former manual scavengers of human waste -- the "untouchables" of society -- move into other jobs.
With selflessness and mercy, members of the opposing softball team in do-or-die playoff game carried a player around the bases after her homerun a subsequent knee injury stopped her at first base.
A violinist who left his $4 million Stradivarius instrument in an airport taxi is playing a private concert today to thank the driver who faithfully returned it to him -- a 30-minute performance in the cab waiting area at Newark Liberty International Airport.
He still has a job in a plumbing retailer, but in his spare time 101-year-old Buster Martin is training for the London Marathon while tipping back a pint of beer.
Delta employees are using some of their downtime between flights to create quilts for sick kids. Inspiring video shows their efforts at producing thousands of quilts this year.
The peace sign was created 50 years ago by artist Gerald Holtom in London for an anti-war protest, incorporating the flag signals (semaphores) for the letters N and D --for Nuclear Disarmament.
Amidst the flood of young disabled veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a group of older veterans organized themselves to help ease the return of the soldiers to civilian life. VeteranTutors.org was set up as a way to sponsor these young veterans and help train them for new careers.
Last week the city took action to evict a homeless man from an amazing treehouse, but his concerned neighbors who benefitted with his presence (the vacant lot was always kept clean and the crime rate kept low as he looked after the place), have rallied together to buy him a used RV.
Disney employees including executive housekeeper Drew Weaver and seven of his staff were determined to help and waded into the bags of garbage. They miraculously found the rings.