Countries across the world are continuing to make rapid progress in reducing child deaths, a UNICEF report said this week.
According to the 2012 UN report, trends in child mortality since 1990 include major reductions in all regions of the world for children under five. This has translated into a sharp drop in total deaths from nearly 12 million in 1990 to an estimated 6.9 million in 2011. Last year alone, the total number of global deaths of small children dropped by 700,000.
A bald eagle shot in the face by a poacher in 2005, suffered such damage to her beak that feeding herself became impossible.
Animal rescue workers found her before she starved to death, and volunteers at the nonprofit group Birds of Prey Northwest nursed her back to health.
Seven years later, the eagle named Beauty can now preen and eat on her own, thanks to a little help from technology.
A bald eagle shot in the face by a poacher in 2005, suffered such damage to her beak that feeding herself became impossible.
Animal rescue workers found her before she starved to death, and volunteers at the nonprofit group Birds of Prey Northwest nursed her back to health.
Seven years later, the eagle named Beauty can now preen and eat on her own, thanks to a little help from technology.
Gerald Gronowski may owe his life to the intervention of a good Samaritan, who last week came to his rescue on the side of the road.
Ohio nurse practitioner Christopher Manacci later learned that he came to their rescue eight years ago, too.
“The odds of that happening are astronomical,” said Gronowski.
“Now I know it’s my job to repay this by helping someone else.”
(WATCH the video below or READ the story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Gerald Gronowski may owe his life to the intervention of a good Samaritan, who last week came to his rescue on the side of the road.
Ohio nurse practitioner Christopher Manacci later learned that he came to their rescue eight years ago, too.
“The odds of that happening are astronomical,” said Gronowski.
A few weeks ago President Obama planned a last-minute rally on the same day — and place — as a local wedding.
“The staff and secret service were very gracious about it,” according to the couple’s friend.
Afterward, the newlyweds received a package of gifts and a personal note from the President.
“Congratulations on the wedding! Michelle and I wish you a great life together!” – Barack Obama.
I always say that negative media is useful because, among other benefits, it can be a catalyst for inspired action. Meet 8-year-old Vivienne Harr of Fairfax, Calif. who set up a lemonade stand after seeing a gallery of photographs depicting modern day slavery.
She told her parents, “We need to make a stand”. And they literally did.
Utilizing social media and an old fashioned lemonade stand, called “Where do you stand?” She set a goal of freeing 500 child slaves.
I always say that negative media is useful because, among other benefits, it can be a catalyst for inspired action. Meet 8-year-old Vivienne Harr of Fairfax, Calif. who set up a lemonade stand after seeing a gallery of photographs depicting modern day slavery.
She told her parents, “We need to make a stand”. And they literally did.
Utilizing social media and an old fashioned lemonade stand, called “Where do you stand?” She set a goal of freeing 500 child slaves.
A foster cat named Nino alerted Claudia D’Argenio to a fire in the apartment two doors down. Everyone in her Murray Hill building was able to escape the blaze.
Claudia D’Argenio, 47, had taken in the black-and-white foster cat just a week-and-a-half earlier when the normally quiet kitty started meowing frantically at her Wednesday afternoon and wouldn’t stop.
Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the French Revolution — but you won’t find a statue of him in Paris today.
He led armies of thousands in triumph through treacherous territory, from the snows of the Alps to the sands of Egypt.
How did the son of a Haitian slave and a French nobleman become Napoleon’s leading swordsman of the Revolution, then a prisoner, and finally almost forgotten?
While enrolled at Cornell University, Andrew Grauer felt the frustration of many undergraduates: Too much knowledge is bottled up in private hard drives and individual brains. “Course Hero is about democratizing access to quality learning materials and services,” he says. So he took a semester off from school and founded the company, which quickly reached 1 million visitors a month.
Christian Bale answered the Bat-signal this week for a 4-year-old cancer patient who wished to meet his hero.
Jayden Barber wanted to meet the real “Batman,” so friends and family organized a Facebook page in hopes of attracting Bale’s attention. The 38-year-old actor answered the call and earlier this week flew Jayden and his entire family out to Disneyland for an intimate lunch.
“Hail, Murray!” called leaders, tennis pros and fans on Tuesday after the gritty Scot Andy Murray became the first British man to win a Grand Slam since 1936.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said his five-set defeat of Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the US Open final was continuing Britain’s “golden summer of sport” following the Olympics and Paralympics.
An extremely dedicated dog has continued to show its loyalty, keeping watch on its owner’s grave six years after he passed away.
Capitan, a German shepherd, reportedly ran away from home after its owner, Miguel Guzman, died in 2006. A week later, the Guzman family found the dog sitting by his grave in central Argentina, even though they had never brought the dog to the site before.
Libyans held a pro-America rally last night expressing regret and shame for the attacks on the American embassy that resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others.
A CBS reporter on the scene said there is a sense of shock and anger toward those responsible for the crimes.
“When you talk to Libyans here you hear the same thing: Everybody is heartbroken. They’re saddened, they’re shocked by what’s happened,” D’Agata told Norah O’Donnell and Charlie Rose. “They say the ambassador is a personal friend to the Libyans.”
Libyans held a pro-America rally last night expressing regret and shame for the attacks on the American embassy that resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others.
A CBS reporter on the scene said there is a sense of shock and anger toward those responsible for the crimes.
“When you talk to Libyans here you hear the same thing: Everybody is heartbroken. They’re saddened, they’re shocked by what’s happened,” D’Agata told Norah O’Donnell and Charlie Rose. “They say the ambassador is a personal friend to the Libyans.”
The London Marathon’s claim to fame is not the speed of the runners, but the generosity of their record-breaking charity pledges.
As the world’s greatest fundraising event, the Marathon this week exceeded even last year’s haul, breaking the single day fundraising world record for the sixth straight year, organizers said on Wednesday.
Marathon runners raised 52.8 million pounds, one million more than last year ($84 million dollars).
A Maryland woman didn’t recognize the priceless painting when she bought it in a box of knick knacks for seven dollars in a West Virginia flea market.
She only hoped the gold frame might be worth something. But her mother urged her to take the small landscape to an appraiser.
It turned out to be a 1879 Renoir, the French impressionist masterpiece that’s been missing since the 1920s, entitled “Paysage Bords de Seine”.
Yahoo News reports the woman plans to take her mother to France after the auction and will make an effort to take some flowers to Renoir’s grave.
(WATCH the video below – or READ the story from CBS-Baltimore)
Afghanistan war veteran Cpl. Juan Dominguez has a new “smart home” adapted to his combat injuries, thanks to money raised by actor Gary Sinise and the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
The home, which contains an elevator, self-flushing toilets, lighting controlled with an iPad, and easy-open cabinets and doors, will give him and his wife a “second chance at life.”
By year’s end, the Siller foundation, with Sinise’s help, will have funded 20 homes for U.S. military personnel grievously wounded in war.
(READ the story, w/ new photo, in the LA Times)
The Coast Guard rescued an Alaska fisherman who survived on frigid ocean waters floating in a four-foot-square plastic fish crate after his boat sank.
Ryan Harris, 19, told the local newspaper in Sitka, Alaska, that he sang songs like “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to keep himself awake through the night.
(READ the story from Time.com)
