Even though his Scoutmaster said it couldn't be done in the time remaining, a Lond Island teen managed to earn all 121 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts of America. His inspiration came from his grandmother who was dying and said, "Why don't you try to earn every one?"
A UK teen was the object of bullying weighing 280 pounds (127 kg). But now he has lost 97 pounds (44kg) and become the country's top "Slimmer", named for the weight-loss club to which he turned for help in his bid to lose weight, eat healthier, and ease the pain encountered at school.
A young engineer set up the StairSteady company when she was only 16 to market her innovative idea, a simple device to assist people to go up and down stairs when they don't need an expensive chair lift.
A man stuck in airport security gridlock was finally able to say farewell to his murdered grandson after a Southwest Airline pilot refused to depart without him.
In the UK, the world's second oldest animal welfare organization said it was shocked by the scale of organized badger persecution it has uncovered in Northern Ireland. But now, operatives working for the USPCA are using an aerial drone with a camera onboard to film gangs, and chase them away, as they prepare to attack badgers.
A 21-year-old design student in Detroit redesigned the winter coat to help homeless people suffering from relentlessly cold winters. The ankle-length Element S is hooded, self-heated and waterproof, but it also transforms into a sleeping bag at night. Not only that, her Detroit Empowerment Plan envisioned that the coat be made by a group of homeless women who are paid minimum wage, and fed and housed while creating the coats. The plan now creates jobs for those who desire them and coats for those who need them at no cost.
A University of Brighton student has developed a safety device that projects a bright green laser image of a bike onto the road ahead – alerting motorists to their presence.
A savvy dog helped save a man's life and fought off a mugger just a month after being taken in by new owners. The newly-adopted 11-year-old Jack Russell also spotted a man who had collapsed in a diabetic coma and pulled her owner to him, leading paramedics to say the dog probably 'saved the man's life'.
Could computer games be the solution for persuading children with cystic fibrosis to complete their physiotherapy? For such patients, daily breathing exercises are necessary to clear mucus from the lungs, but kids would rather be doing other things, such as playing computer games Doctors in the US have now combined the two.
Good news in post-earthquake Japan: All the wind turbines survived the quake and offered stability to the electrical grid during the crisis. Even the offshore turbines in the vicinity of the earthquake epicenter survived. In some regions of Japan, this has saved the day, as power utilities struggle.
Twitter and Facebook users are harnessing the power of social networking to coordinate a massive clean-up operation in areas affected by the riots across England. An account on Twitter called @riotcleanup has so far attracted more than 70,000 followers.
You can be as fit or fitter than a much younger person. I firmly believe that we have underestimated as a culture, and maybe even in the field of exercise science, what older adults are capable of doing.