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US Offers Earthquake Aid to Iran
Despite chilled relations between the two countries over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Bush administration called the Iranian embassy to offer immediate aid to the...
Iranian Moderate Candidates Win Big
In recent Iranian elections, moderate candidates who supported cultural, social and political reforms won substantial gains in the legislature: 170 seats with another 65...
Iran’s New President Offers Reformers Hope
A stunning upset in the Iranian elections in May, 1997 ushered in a new moderate President, Mohammed Khatemi, and promises of reform and tolerance....
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 17
21 years ago, the pinnacle was secured in place on the Taipei 101 making it the highest building on Earth, surpassing the Petronas Twins...
New Evidence Near Mysterious Carvings Show Persians May Have Escaped to Madagascar for Religious Freedom
Among the sandstone hills and boulders of Madagascar's Isalo National Park, the curious archaeological site of Teniky has puzzled researchers for decades.
These rock-cut niches,...
India’s Rhino Stronghold Sees 86% Drop in Poaching and Five-Fold Increase in Rhinos
Since 2016, poaching of one-horned rhinoceroses in India's Assam state has fallen 86% after a change in government brought determined action to protect them
By...
Ancient Mummies Reveal Precise Origins of Kefir in the Human Diet: New Study
The oldest traces of fermented dairy ever discovered were recently found in western China's Tarim Basin, dating back 3,600 years.
A DNA analysis shows that...
AI Used With Cold War Spy Satellites Can Detect Ancient Underground Aqueducts
Spanish technical archaeologists have identified ancient irrigation ducts in desert regions around the world using AI.
The AI was trained to pour through old spy...
Good News in History, August 24
Happy 51st Birthday to the simply hilarious Dave Chappelle. One of the greatest millennial comics, Chappelle was called a genius during his early explosion...
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Archaeologists Find Literal Pot of Gold, but it’s Not in Ireland
It's one of the best things an archaeologist can hope to find: a hoard of gold coins. One was dug up recently in a...
Good News in History, August 8
40 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win...
Massive Helium Reservoir in Minnesota Is ‘Mind-Boggling’ – Valuable for Rocketry and Medicine
An American company is in possession of a "world-class," and "mind-boggling" deposit of subterranean helium gas, which has them excited for way more than...
Good News in History, July 6
67 years ago today, Althea Gibson won her first Wimbledon Women's Singles title, becoming the first African American to do so. The 1957 season...
Good News in History, June 21
Happy 80th Birthday to The Kinks co-founder and frontman Ray Davies. Regarded as one of the most influential British songwriters, Davies wrote the 1964...
Good News in History, June 20
29 years years ago today, Greenpeace activists bolstered by international pressure forced Shell Oil of the UK into a dramatic reversal of its decision...
Good News in History, June 13
69 years ago today, Alan Hansen, one of the greatest Scottish footballers of all time and one of the greatest defenders to ever play...
2,000-year-old Gold Jewelry from Mysterious Central Asian Culture Discovered in Kazakhstan
Of the many famous empires and states along the Silk Road's Central Asian passages, few are more mysterious than the Kangju.
But in a stroke...
Good News in History, May 23
180 years ago today, Báb, a merchant from Shiraz in Qajar, Iran, announced that he was a prophet, and, remarkably, was not murdered for...