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Unilever Employees Fund Pakistan Food Program With Payroll Donations
A joint venture launched yesterday with the United Nations food agency will allow the employees of industrial giant Unilever to pledge a percentage of...
Food Rations Increase in Darfur Thanks to Recent Donations to UN
Food rations that were recently reduced by half for more than 3 million people in Sudan will be increased to 84 per cent of...
The Ozone Hole is Healing and May Be Completely Repaired Within Our Lifetimes, Says UN Report
This new United Nations report illustrates just what humanity can accomplishment if it works together to save its home planet.
UN to Launch Space Mission for Countries That Can’t Afford Their Own
Some nations simply don't have the funding for their own space programs – so the United Nations is giving them a leg up into orbit.
Good News in History, November 19
25 years ago today, China successfully launched its Shenzhou spacecraft into orbit. The first Chinese craft designed to eventually carry humans made an 89-minute...
Good News in History, November 16
79 years ago today, UNESCO was first formed to promote world peace by uniting countries through education, the arts, sciences, and culture. Fostering universal...
Good News in History, November 7
Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell who turns 80 today. The Canadian singer-songwriter and painter is one of the most influential female musicians of the...
Good News in History, October 24
20 years ago today, Arsenal Football Club set an unbeaten record winning 49 matches in a row, the most ever in the English Premier...
Good News in History, October 11
49 years ago today, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC with George Carlin as host. The seminal comedy television program in American history, SNL...
Good News in History, October 7
On this day, 139 years ago, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born. In his long and distinguished career, he made foundational contributions to...
Good News in History, October 4
200 years ago today, a new federalist constitution was signed inaugurating the First Mexican Republic. A drafting committee consisting of several representative figures led...
Good News in History September 21
43 years ago today, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female Supreme Court Justice. She was approved in the Senate 99-0,...
Good News in History, September 18
73 years ago today, A Streetcar Named Desire, the film based on the play by Tennessee Williams, premiered in New York City. Starring Vivien Leigh,...
Good News in History September 17
Happy 80th Birthday to the greatest mountaineer of all time, Reinhold Messner. An Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South...
Good News in History September 13
77 years ago today, T-Bone Walker recorded his great hit, which after dozens of renditions by famous bluesmen and musicians from Eric Clapton to...
Good News in History, September 5
A quarter millennium ago, the First Continental Congress was organized in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, after the British Navy implemented a blockade of Boston Harbor...
Oceanographers Explore Underwater Mountain Bigger Than Mount Olympus Teeming with Wonders
900 miles off the coast of Chile in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a scientific expedition recently found a plethora of wonders hidden...
Good News in History September 2
Happy 60th Birthday to Keanu Reeves, the actor who might be called one of the nicest guys in show business. The Canadian started his...
Good News in History, August 21
85 years ago today, civil rights protestors quietly entered the library in Alexandria, VA to stage a sit-in. One young black man, well-dressed and...
Good News in History, August 14
87 years ago today, the National Scenic Trail known as the Appalachian Trail was completed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Claimed to be the...