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MUST SEE: Video Captures Wonder as 4-Year-old Gets Bucket List Filled
Using a poignant video to make a point, the WaterIsLife charity brought a four-year-old African child on an incredible journey, fulfilling everything on his...
Boy Scares off Lions With Flashy Solar Invention
A 13-year-old Massai boy in Kenya has invented an ingenious system to scare off the lions that were killing his family's livestock. Living on...
Honest Spanish Runner Won’t Take Advantage of Competitor’s Error
Vitoria-based athlete Iván Fernández Anaya refused to take advantage when his Kenyan rival mistakenly stopped short of the finish line in a December cross-country...
Orphaned Elephants Find New Family
A woman is saving the orphan calves of African elephants illegally hunted to satisfy the ivory trade in Asia. The 900-pound toddlers crave a...
The 13-year-old Who Has the World Planting Trees
Finding himself besieged by a gaggle of young female devotees, Felix Finkbeiner is an environmental superstar and author of the book Tree by Tree......
How One Swedish Woman’s Kindness Changed 350 Families …and Counting
The amazing story of Hilde Back proves how many ripples can change countless lives directly from a single act of generosity. When she was...
Superhero Art Tour for Real-World Famine Relief
A new national art exhibit launched by DC Entertainment will shine a light on the company's efforts to raise awareness and money for the...
Strangers Raise $30,000 on Reddit for Fatally Ill Man to Travel
Reddit.com has done it again. The social media community has once again responded with incredible generosity to a personal story of tragedy posted on...
Silicon Valley Launches $10 Million Seed Fund for African Tech, UN Leaders Pledge 80% Broadband Coverage by 2020
A new seed capital fund committed to finding and investing in high-potential East African “pre-revenue” startups was launched Wednesday in Kenya.
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Blacks Living Longer, Life Expectancy Gap Shrinks in US
Whites in the United States have typically lived longer on average than blacks, but a new study released on Tuesday suggests that gap in...
Dusty African Village Fights Crime with Twitter
When the administrative chief of a western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher's home, he...
New Film Chronicles How ‘A Small Act’ Changes Lives
A woman in Sweden started sending money to a children's charity in Africa and little did she know that because of her small payments...
Mama Lion Saves Cub After Fall From Cliff
A photographer snapped some incredible photos of a lioness rescuing her struggling cub, after its fall down a steep cliff. The dangling young lion...
Tribute: Wangari Maathai, First African Woman to Win Nobel Peace Prize (1940-2011)
Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer at...
Inspiring 9/11 Story: A Massai Warrior’s Unexpected Gift to America
In the days following 9/11, Americans were in shock and grieving—but so were others around the world who offered extraordinary gestures of support to a country that...
British Air to Send Jumbo Jet of Aid to Drought-hit Africa, Irish Famine Memory Spurs Donations There
In the coming days, British Airways will send a jumbo jet full of supplies for crisis-hit East Africans. Carrying aid from Oxfam and Unicef,...
Twitter Tries to Fill Dying Girl’s Bucket List
A 15-year-old girl from North England has been fighting cancer for four years and now strangers around the world are fighting to help her...
Woman Saving Girls From Sex Slavery Named CNN Hero of the Year
A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the...
London to Cape Town Using the Power of the Sun
After 347 days, 27,000 miles, 16 countries, 14 punctures, and 4000 hours of sunshine-generated power, Gwyn Roberts arrived at his destination last month, completing...
Top 10 CNN Heroes for 2010 Announced
A Scotsman providing free daily meals to 400,000 children, a former child soldier clearing land mines in Cambodia and a Texas builder giving injured...