Though a fence at the border divides them, yoga enthusiasts in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, have come together for an international yoga class organized by the  Border Meetup Group.
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For the past 13 years, an Atlanta doctor named Gary Stillwater has been making annual trips to the Ukraine to provide food and other necessities to orphaned children, and has even started a nonprofit foundation to raise additional funds to help them.
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Lottery officials in Georgia have reported that one winning multi-million dollar ticket was sold in a liquor store near Cincinnati.  The owner of the store is 'dying to know who won.'
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A simple technique can recycle the potentially toxic waste from junk computers into environmentally friendly raw materials used for fuel, plastic and other valuable consumer products.
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Japan’s cutest cartoon cat, Hello Kitty, is set to become their next tourism ambassador in a move aimed at attracting 10 million overseas visitors every year.  We hear that Triumph the insult comedy dog is extremely jealous.
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Geir Johansen lost $8,000 after forgetting the money on his car's roof.  Five months later Arne Kristian Iversen found the money during a roadside clean-up and quickly returned the cash – free of any finder’s fee.
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Although the Myanmar junta has tried to block aid from foreign donors, help continues to arrive.  The aid for the survivors of the devastating cyclone comes from donors such as Bill Gates and includes a luxury river cruise liner loaned to a charity for transporting relief material and 25,000 shoes sent by a U.S.-based group.
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59 years ago Maj. Gen. (Ret.) John E. Hoover saved a young boy as North Korean and Communist Chinese armies invaded the streets of Seoul.  The boy, Phillip Lee, now 74, was reunited with the man who he now credits with saving his life.
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Britain has pledged to give Ethiopia 2.5 billion birr to help the Horn of Africa country try to achieve the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.
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A new study at Columbia University found that children who live on tree-lined streets have significantly lower rates of asthma.  Maybe there should be a new motto - ‘a tree a day keeps the asthma away.’
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A team of volunteer research engineers at the Raptor Chapter of Idaho are working to create a new bionic beak for the wounded bald eaglenamed Beauty.  We guess we can call this story Beauty and the Beak.
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Most of Costa Rica's rain forests have been destroyed, and now researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Sciences are working towards what many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem.
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Two men are being hailed as heroes after saving the life of a 21-month-old toddler who accidentally fell into a storm drain after sliding out of a minivan.
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