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‘Guitars Over Guns’ Keeps Kids Off Mean Streets With Celebrity Jams

Chad Bernstein, a premiere Latin, funk and jazz artist, has played with the likes of Shakira, Pharrell, Jennifer Hudson and Pitbull. But most notably he...
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Canadians Trade Guns for Cameras in Creative Anti-Violence Program

In addition to universal healthcare, Canada can now add swapping guns for cameras to its list of progressive policies. The program to reduce gun violence...
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Once Lawless Indian State Turns Guns into Hoes

Hundreds of thousands of illegal arms seized by police in India are being melted down and turned into agricultural tools to help impoverished farmers...
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Solar Development ‘Going Like Great Guns’ in Pennsylvania

Since the state's Sunshine Solar Program opened up in the spring of 2009, the solar demand in Pennsylvania has been "going like great guns...
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Iraqis Turning Guns, Mortars into Works of Art

A dragonfly fashioned from a machine gun barrel and a rifle butt carved into the portrait of an ancient Egyptian queen are just a...
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Bulgarian Economy Turns From Making Guns to Growing Roses

A valley in Bulgaria's mountains, for decades known for making AK-47 rifles, now has blossomed into a supplier of organic rose oil for beauty...

U.S. Mayors Band Together Against Illegal Guns

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino teamed up two years ago to launch Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that...
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Crafting Guns into Guitars

Polished rosewood, guitar frets and strings are added to the shotguns and AK-47s reclaimed through Colombia's peace process "turning tools of death into symbols...

Guns for Bikes Program in Africa Expanding

This program should be administered throughout the world! ... Gunmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo are given bicycles in exchange for their weapons....

East Timor Rebels Hand in Guns, Desire Peace

A third group of rebel soldiers in East Timor has surrendered its weapons - part of an initiative to restore order in the troubled...

Airport Keeps Wildlife Away From Runways with Robot Disguised as Predator

Across Alaska last year, there were 92 instances of animal strikes on the state's runways. This year, the Alaska Dept. of Transportation is rolling out...

Good News in History, April 4

60 years ago today, Beatlemania was in full bloom as the band held every one of the top five spots on the US singles...

Good News in History, February 26

2,771 years ago today, the Neo Babylonian king Nabonassar assumed the throne of the great city, which isn't necessarily good news in itself, but...

Boy Who Started Food Bank in his Shed Now Opens Holiday ‘Gift Bank’ for Hundreds of Poor Kids

Last year, GNN reported on the kind heart of 11-year-old Isaac Winfield, who opened a food bank in his garden shed to help the...

Houston Good Samaritan Steps up to Drag Wounded Officer Away from Gunfight

If you thought you had a crumby Monday commute this morning, check out this video of a hero from Houston getting out of his...

Good News in History, August 8

39 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win...

Good News in History, August 3

Happy 60th birthday to James Hetfield, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Metallica. The thrash metal kings have featured only 2 permanent members,...

Good News in History, July 26

Happy 80th Birthday to Sir Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Born in Kent, England to a teacher and hairdresser, he’s spent more than...

Good News in History, July 21

170 years ago today, the New York State legislature voted to set aside or purchase 770 acres in the middle of Manhattan Island for...

Good News in History, July 15

Though not a pilot, on this day in 1939 the fashionable and smashing Clara Adams stepped off her passenger aircraft in Newark, having completed...