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India and Southeast Asia Are Now Officially Polio-Free
Older Americans remember when, in the 1940s and 50's, polio crippled about 35,000 people each year. After Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, the...
LEGO Donates $3 Million to Educate Refugee Children
The LEGO Foundation presented a $3 million donation to the UN refugee agency on Friday to help improve access to quality primary school education...
Top 10 Good News Stories of 2013
Saying goodbye to 2013 feels bittersweet. When we remember the crime and tragedies of the year, we tend to forget all the good things....
Marvel Comics Introducing a Muslim Girl Superhero
With most superheroes, when you take away the colorful costume, mask and cape, what you find underneath is a white man. But not...
New Fund for Asia to Protect Poor From Climate Extremes
A new $140 million fund to boost climate resilience in cities in six Asian countries was launched on Friday by the Rockefeller Foundation, the...
Taliban Can’t Silence Malala who Celebrates 16th Birthday with Defiant UN Address
The Pakistani child education activist who was shot in the head nine months ago by Taliban militants celebrated her 16th birthday by delivering a...
Gold! Haiti Finds Potential $20 Billion of Precious Buried Ore
Exploratory drilling in Haiti has uncovered gold and silver deep inside the country's northeastern mountains that may help relive centuries of poverty in the...
No Ice Loss Seen in Major Himalayan Glaciers: Scientists
One of the world's biggest glacier regions has so far resisted global warming that has ravaged mountain ice elsewhere, scientists reported on Sunday. The...
LinkedIn Founder Lets 40,000 People Lend His Fortune to Others
Reid Hoffman, one of Silicon Valley's most successful entrepreneurs, has pledged one million dollars in micro-loans on the Kiva website to help tiny businesses...
Iowa Honors Birthday of Farming Hero Who Saved a Billion Lives: Norman Borlaug
Today marks the 98th anniversary of the birth of Iowa’s greatest hero, Norman E. Borlaug, the farm boy who received the Nobel Peace Prize...
India Hailed for its First Polio-Free Year
Today marks a milestone in the fight against polio as India celebrates one year since the last recorded case of new polio infection in...
U.S. Forces Rescue Iranians at Sea for Second Time in a Week
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued six Iranians from sea whose boat had flooded on Tuesday in the Gulf, the second time in less than...
Danish Navy Captures Pirate Ship, Frees 14 Hostages
The Danish navy says it has captured a suspected pirate mothership off the Horn of Africa and rescued 14 people from Iran and Pakistan...
Apparel Exporters to End Child Labor in India
After global apparel companies like Gap and Adidas censured the Indian apparel industry for engaging in child labor, the nation's Apparel Export Promotion Council...
8,000 Afghan Schools Built So Far, 13 More Over Next 6 Months
The Afghanistan Minister of Education, Dr. Farooq Wardak, has been very busy since taking office three years ago. More than 8,000 school buildings have...
Squash Prodigy Flees Taliban, Finds Refuge in Toronto
At 20, Maria Toorpakai is the best female squash player in Pakistan. But she can't play there.
Her family began receiving death threats from the...
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead; President Tells Nation ‘Justice Has Been Done’
Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network that killed 3,000 people in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, is dead.
President...
Women of Courage Awardees Set Example for the World
On Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to recognize ten remarkable...
World Landmarks Light-Up With ‘End Polio’ Message in Final Push to Eradicate Disease
What do the Trevi Fountain in Rome, India’s Charminar monument, and the New York Stock Exchange building have in common? Each of these iconic...
Top 10 “Seriously Good News” From 2010
2010 was a year of disasters -- Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill and Pakistani flooding -- yet it was also a year of stunning...