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Hauntingly Beautiful Flashmob Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Flashmobs always involve the element of surprise. The best ones also inspire. This one in South Africa Saturday melted the hearts of a nation...
Photos You Didn’t See From Mandela Memorial – Dems and R’s Coming Together
If the contrived controversies of a handshake with the Cuban leader and a presidential selfie blanketed your news coverage of the heartfelt memorial service...
World Honors Mandela (1918-2013) as Champion of Freedom and Reconciliation
Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hailed on Thursday as a champion of reconciliation who 'achieved more than could be expected of any...
Good Deeds To Celebrate Mandela’s 94th Birthday
Children in South Africa began their school day Wednesday by singing Happy Birthday to the country's most famous statesman while across the world people...
Mandela Legacy Brings Shelter to NW Poor
Destitute villagers of Seolong outside Rustenburg in the North West will soon have roofs over their heads, thanks to the legacy of Nelson Mandela.
The...
Remarkable Meeting for Michelle Obama With Nelson Mandela
The First Lady began her tour of South Africa meeting a parade of leaders from government, industry, non-profit and education, but it was her...
Humble South African Golfer Comes Out of Nowhere to Win British Open on Mandela’s Bday
South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who had missed the cut in all his three previous Opens and was a 250-1 outsider before the tournament started,...
Adidas Auctions FIFA Paintings for Mandela Charity
Some of the biggest names in football have come together to sign portraits of themselves painted by local African artists to raise money for...
Make An Imprint on Mandela Day Saturday (Celebrity Video)
South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, spent 67 years making the world a better place, starting with nothing more than a prison uniform and...
Mandela and The Elders Head to Darfur
South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will lead a group of elder statesmen later this month to visit Darfur. This is to be the...
Good News in History, February 13
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
Good News in History, February 11
2,684 years ago today is the traditional date for the foundation of the earliest centralized state on the islands of Japan. Descendant of the...
Good News in History, February 2
53 years ago today, The Ramsar Convention on the Sustainable Use of Wetlands was signed in Ramsar, Iran. When stopping to think about it,...
Good News in History, December 13
668 years ago, the Moroccan traveler, writer, pilgrim, and jack of all social trades, Ibn Battuta, completed his monumental travelog, often shortened to "The...
Good News in History, November 7
120 years ago today, Konrad Lorenz, the father of modern ethnology and Nobel laureate, was born in Vienna. In 2002, he was ranked as...
Good News in History, October 15
26 years ago today, NASA and ESA's Cassini Mission, meant to gather data on Saturn and its moons, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The...
Good News in History, October 7
On this day, 138 years ago, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born. In his long and distinguished career, he made foundational contributions to...
Good News in History, September 6
61 years ago, Archaeologist James Marsden unearthed the first of the Blackfriar shipwrecks. Dating back to the 2nd century CE. The wreck is dated...
Good News in History, July 27
157 years ago, the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable was pulled ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, having been towed 1,600 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship....
Good News in History, July 25
148 years ago today, the British hunter, naturalist, and author, Jim Corbett was born. He was often hired by various Indian legislatures to hunt...