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Obama Honors First President Bush as “Points of Light” Shine On
President Obama welcomed the man who launched the modern service movement, President George H. W. Bush, now in a wheelchair and 89 years old,...
Oxford University Study Suggests World Poverty is Rapidly Shrinking
World poverty is shrinking and developing countries are becoming less poor according to a new study by Oxford University.
Nepal, Rwanda and Bangladesh were the...
Extinct in the Wild, Toad Makes a Comeback
The thumbnail-sized golden colored Kihansi Spray Toad, only discovered by scientists in 1996, was officially declared Extinct in the Wild by the International Union...
Cheap Solar Cells Scoop Million-dollar Prize
A flexible solar cell that could provide cheap energy for everyone has been awarded a prize worth nearly a million dollars. The Millennium...
British Student Buys African Orphanage
A student who visited a run-down African orphanage was so moved by the children's plight that she raised the money to buy it....
For World Water Day Groups Get Pumped, and Get Hiking
To honor World Water Day today, the Rotary International and USAID have launched the International H2O Collaboration to implement water, sanitation, and hygiene...
HIV Diagnosis Inspires Life of Service
Anti-retroviral therapy re-energizes a Tanzanian woman living with HIV to give back to others who face the same challenges. She is a different woman...
TV Star’s Death-Defying Tortoise Escapes Recycling
A tortoise belonging to Welsh comedienne Ruth Jones is recuperating at home after a lucky escape from a recycling plant. The Fifty five-year-old tortoise,...
Olympians Donate Sportswear to Inspire Refugees
A new UN campaign is giving Olympians a chance to be winners in the eyes of refugees. The “Giving is Winning” program, which seeks...
EARTH ALERT ’08: Top Ten Good News for the Earth
Happy Earth Day! Here are the top ten good news stories for the environment... Since the first Earth Day in 1970, air quality has...
Bush Presidential Slide Show Highlights His Favorite Trip and Legacy in Africa
President Bush highlighted the successes of his mostly-compassionate African policies while on a recent 5-nation tour there, from a quadrupling of U.S. humanitarian aid...
New Miracle Mosquito Nets (Video)
Sleeping under mosquito nets treated with insecticide has been shown to be an extremely effective and cheap method of preventing deadly malaria. Now, a...
Child Mortality Falls to Record Low Worldwide
Thanks mainly to campaigns to combat measles and malaria and promote breast-feeding, child deaths worldwide have reached a record low, falling below 10 million...
Kenyans Plant Trees to Coax Back Flamingos
Where once a million flamingos awashed the shores in pink along Lake Nakuru, a community is replanting saplings to help rebuild the forests they...
New Coffee Helps Save Chimps and Impoverished Farmers at the Same Time
Chimpanzees and coffee have more in common than you might think. It was in Gombe National Park in Tanzania in 1960 that legendary primatologist...
San Francisco Ban Plastic Bags, Manitoba Town Too
Consumers have become unconscious about their shopping habits and stores are feeding the addiction by handing over purchases, even if they consist of a...
De Beers to Help Reduce Poverty for Diamond Miners
Last Friday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Jonathan Oppenheimer, Director of De Beers, and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete announced a $2...
World Bank Cancels Debt of 17 of the World’s Poorest Countries
The World Bank approved details to implement the 2005 debt relief initiative, which will cancel the debt of some of the world’s poorest countries...