22 hours ago From TIME  

LONDON, U K - The villagers called a local animal rescue organization who came out armed with a backhoe. The group was able to carve out a pathway for the elephant who then walked to freedom, her mother, and, hopefully, safety. Watch the full video below: ...

23 hours ago From The Southern Reporter  

EDINBURGH, U K - An estimated 10,000 participants left Leith Links at midnight to tackle the new New Moon (6.55 miles), Half Moon (13.1 miles), Full Moon (26.2 miles) and, also new this year, Over the Moon (52.4 miles) walks organised by grant-making breast cancer .. ...

23 hours ago From Sutton Coldfield Observer  

SUTTON, U K - A SUMMER community event held in support of a Sutton cancer charity was assisted by volunteers from a banking group and solicitors firm and opened by the town's MP last weekend. The Cancer Support Centre Summer Fair, held on Saturday, June 8, saw ...

23 hours ago From Ghana Business News  

ACCRA, GHANA - Statistics published by the World Health Organisation (WHO)/United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2012 shows that only 15 per cent representing 3.7 million Ghanaians have access to clean, safe improved toilets in their homes. Also 58 per cen ...

24 hours ago From abc7.com  

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - Veterinary technicians at the Riverside County Animal Shelter spent the morning examining all 30 dogs. They were all were found inside a small Jurupa Valley home locked up in the kitchen with no way out. "Every morning, there were barking. I don ...

24 hours ago From Just Jared Jr.  

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - From June 30 to September 28th, Staples customers can donate $1 or more at any Staples store, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting local students. Each Staples store will be matched with a local Boys & Girls Club which will receive the don ...

24 hours ago From Times of India  

NEW DELHI, INDIA - KABUL, Afghanistan, June 13, 2013 /CNW/ - The Bayat Foundation, led by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ehsanollah Bayat, recently inaugurated a new pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) and critical care unit (CCU) at Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul. ...

24 hours ago From Times of India  

NEW DELHI, INDIA - Last October, the trust was told it would be thrown out of its base in Sham Farm on September 30 by landlord the Nevill Estate Company who want to use the land for a livestock business to supply Eridge Park Farm Shop. Despite of receiving offers of . ...

24 hours ago From Times of India  

NEW DELHI, INDIA - Also present at the conference was Director of Medical Development department in the Health Ministry, Datuk Dr Azmi Shapie and the Malaysian Diabetes Association (MDA) President, Professor Datuk Dr Ikram Shah Ismail. Dr Ikram Shah said Malaysia had&n ...

24 hours ago From Mongabay.com  

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA - Sarah Murnaghan has cystic fibrosis and her parents challenged the policy that made children under 12 wait for pediatric lungs, which are rarely donated. A relative says the child's donor lungs transplanted Wednesday at Children's Hospital of ...

42 hours ago From AfricaNews  

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - Since 1 June 2013, MTN Cameroon is more than ever before close to communities through its ... meant for inmates of the Marie France Orphanage of Nkolbikone. ...

42 hours ago From News24  

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Cape town - Four lions and two tigers that were rescued from a Romanian Zoo have been released into Lions Rock, an animal sanctuary in the Free State. After a life spent in very small premises and inappropriate conditions at the Onesti Zoo in Bacau&n ...

42 hours ago From Sydney Morning Herald  

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The ceremony will include the unveiling of a wooden battlefield cross on the YMCA's grounds carved by Jesse Green, who has gained fame through the reality TV series "American Chainsaw" on the National Geographic Channel. The battlefield ...

42 hours ago From All Africa  

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - CHICO =97 July 1 begins the month-long sign-up window for the annual Annie B's Community Drive. To be a part of the area's largest fundraising efforts, nonprofit organizations are required to sign up before the application deadline July 31. A ...

44 hours ago From Independent European Daily Express  

KAMPALA, UGANDA - Many others work in hotels and bars, where they often end up being beaten or sexually abused, said social worker Barbra Ongodia from local NGO Kids in Need (KIN). Some also work as house servants and in the construction and commercial agriculture&nbs ...

44 hours ago From Camp Lejeune Globe  

JACKSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA - Hope for the Warriors successfully hosted their signature kayak and paddleboard race at the sixth Kayak for the Warriors event in Pine Knoll Shores, N.C., June 8. The organization strives to better the lives of wounded service members and their famil ...

44 hours ago From Colorado Springs Gazette  

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO - "We are getting a large number of calls, so we're having to categorize and prioritize our efforts," said Gretchen Pressley, communications specialist with the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region. "Officers are in the field tryi ...

44 hours ago From Times Daily  

FLORENCE, ALABAMA - The hunger-relief charity, Feeding America, reported there were 16.2 million =93insecure food homes=94 that year and there's no evidence of a decrease three years later. The United States Department of Agricuture describes food insecurity as a la ...

44 hours ago From Watch List News  

LONDON, U K - 7 year old Owen Levine, anticipating his upcoming 8th Birthday, asked his family to help him organize a party that would help the children in Africa who were dying from malaria. =93Could my friends bring cans of bug spray instead of presents to my pa ...

44 hours ago From Citizen Standard  

VALLEY VIEW, PENNSYLVANIA - VALLEY VIEW - Even the threat of hurricane Andrea wasn't enough to deter the runners and walkers from joining Sterman Masser Potato Farms, Inc., Hegins, for their 1st annual Hot Potato 5K Run/Fun Walk held in the Hegins Valley. With community out ...