Cempasúchil: The flower that reunites lovers across life and death
Discover the ancient Mexica legend of cempasúchil, Mexico’s flower of the dead, and how its golden-orange blooms became an iconic symbol.
Sardinian restaurants are banning phones for families at meals
Image alt text: Family at a restaurant table in Sardinia playing card games and laughing together, no phones visible The Italian federation of pediatricians designed a box of games to help parents ask their kids how their day went. Let’s think about this for a minute. A medical organization had to build a conversation starter …
After surviving 85% burns at 21, man helps feed hundreds of US students
Joey Brown endured a life-changing gas explosion that led to severe burns and extensive surgeries. He regained independence through employment with support from his community and vocational rehabilitation services. While working in a high school cafeteria, he developed meaningful relationships and has become an encouragement to others. Brown is now aiming to buy his own home and adopt a beagle named Snoopy.
From slum walls to classrooms: Mumbai artist wins $1 million Global Teacher Prize
Indian artist and educator Rouble Nagi has won the $1 million GEMS Education Global Teacher Prize 2026 for transforming neglected walls into interactive learning spaces for children in underserved communities. Through her Rouble Nagi Art Foundation, she has established over 800 learning centres across more than 100 communities, helping over one million children access formal education. Nagi plans to use the prize money to establish a Skilling Institute offering free vocational and digital litera
Arizona parents turn donated van into charity fighting inherited blindness
After their son Luke was diagnosed with Bardet-Biedl syndrome, an Arizona couple established A Race Against Blindness. The charity has since raised over $6.1 million for research into inherited retinal diseases. They also organized a sweepstakes featuring a custom adventure van, significantly increasing awareness. Their contributions support groundbreaking gene therapy aimed at BBS1, and funding has expanded to multiple inherited retinal condition studies.
Halloween: nurses dress up hospitalized babies in the ICU to cheer up the parents; cute photos
Nurses dressed up babies hospitalized in the neonatal ICU of a hospital in the United States to celebrate Halloween this Saturday (31) and bring a little joy to the parents. The little patients were transformed into strawberries, watermelon slices, ice creams, and even pickles! The initiative of the Riley Children’s Health team, in Indiana, worked …
Dog stranded for 20 days between cliff and raging river rescued in Nepal
Rob Hirst's family and friends help finish book honouring Midnight Oil songwriter
When he died in January, Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst had been racing to try to finish a book about his career as a songwriter.
How an IAS Officer, Panchayats Revived a Dead River for 6,000+ Villagers Under Rs. 5 Crores
On the night of the Deepdan (a traditional offering of a lighted lamp), Kamlesh Malaiya stood on the new riverfront in Nakatuwa and looked at something he had stopped expecting to see: a crowd, gathered along the Singri River in celebration. Between 1,000 and 1,500 people had come to watch lamps glow on the water. With the banks lit up after dark, the evening felt like a festival to him. The 47-year-old sarpanch of Nakatuwa gram panchayat, with a total population of around 15,000 households, cou
85-YO Kerala Grandmother Teaches Children 3 Languages and Maths With Just Sand & a Stick
For the children gathered around her, a patch of sand becomes their first writing book, and their fingers become pencils. At 85, Indira Amma from Kerala is introducing young learners to the world of letters through a traditional method passed down through generations. For the past decade, she has reportedly been teaching children Malayalam , Hindi, English, and mathematics using this humble approach. Instead of beginning with notebooks and pencils, she lets children trace letters in sand, helpin
How one family gave a critical boost to gene therapy research
A family affected by Sanfilippo syndrome raised millions of dollars for research. The Food and Drug Administration just approved a gene therapy the support helped make possible.
Reunited after 1,711 days: Oleshky evacuees return to Ukraine under Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire
Ukraine’s border with Belarus — Dmytro had not seen his wife Larisa for 1,711 days. He had been counting. Waiting near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, his nervous eyes were fixed on the horizon, looking for the bus carrying Larisa and others fleeing the occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky. When the couple, both 54, …
The kindness of strangers: In 1989 I lost a wallet with $1,000 in it. A couple went to incredible lengths to return it
Cash was king in those days, and that money was enough to last me for a month as I slowly travelled from Australia back to the UK Read more in the kindness of strangers series It was a hot night in 1989 when my wallet – stuffed with $1,000 cash – fell out of my pocket. After university, I left the UK and went travelling in Australia for a year. I saw the delights of the east coast – mostly from various building sites, as I worked my way around doing long hours in the blistering sun. But I loved
Hero Support Dog Saves Husband’s Life After Alerting Deaf Owner to His Deadly Midnight Fall Down Stairs
A deaf woman says her support dog saved her husband’s life after he fell down the stairs—by waking her from a dead sleep to insist something was wrong. Sandra Donally was alerted by her clever pup after husband Gary tumbled down the stairs in the middle of the night and was left bleeding and unconscious. …
Reporter interrupts live broadcast and enters flood to save dog; video
A reporter interrupts live broadcast and enters flood to save dog that was being swept away by the current in Argentina. The journalist Alejandro Pueblas, from channel A24, was reporting on the flooding in Puerto Vilelas, in the province of Chaco, when he noticed the animal in danger. Without hesitation, he dropped the microphone, entered the …
After Níkolas Ferreira's boycott, chef Júlio Ritta serves picanha to 500 hungry people; video
Evil is fought with good and that's what chef Júlio Ritta did, after the discussion he had on social media with the Bolsonaro deputy Níkolas Ferreira (PL-MG). Júlio has been serving food to needy people for 11 years in Porto Alegre (RS) and said he suffered a boycott: he lost donations and sponsors …
Proposed title: They lit candles on forgotten graves. A beautiful gesture by students from Goleniow
They did not know the people whose graves they visited, but they decided to take care of the memory of them. Students of Primary School No. 1 named after Nobel laureates
Dramatic helicopter rescue saves climbers stranded on Italian cliff
Dramatic helicopter rescue saves climbers stranded on Italian cliff
General practitioners delay retirement to provide rural communities
One doctor has taken to seeing patients in a caravan fitted out as a mobile clinic in his spare time.
High School Fills Entire Football Field With Groceries to Replenish New Jersey Food Banks
Hundreds of New Jersey students collected over a quarter million pounds of food during the second annual 100-Yard Food Drive Challenge last week. Thousands of bright yellow donation bags covered Howell High School’s football field from end zone to end zone—with the extraordinary effort marking the largest food drive in the nonprofit Dermer Dreams’ history. …
Man’s unique gift for naming cats has strangers asking him to name their kittens
Hersberry, O'dis, Nuffin—watch how "Unc" comes up with his adorable names.
VIDEO: Entrepreneur weeps as Funke Akindele wears her handmade earrings
A young female entrepreneur broke down in tears of joy after Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Funke Akindele, wore a pair of handmade earrings she gifted her at the FinTribe Finance Fair 2026 in Lagos. The emotional moment occurred at the fourth edition of the event, held at the Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, where the Read More: https://punchng.com/video-entrepreneur-weeps-as-funke-akindele-wears-her-handmade-earrings/
‘I treat every senior as I would a member of my own family’: A home care nurse on finding his calling
Caring for his late father showed senior staff nurse R Subramaniam what families go through. Now he helps them manage illness at home.
Incredible 12h effort that brought 200k people from around the world to a tiny Bhutanese town
Buddhist masters from various schools and denominations and about 200,000 people from around the world congregated in Gelephu, Bhutan to witness volunteers erect 108 stupas in a single day.
Housing Nonprofit Funds $16.5 Million in Eviction Relief to Assist Renters
The Atlanta-based nonprofit that launched an Eviction Relief Fund during the COVID pandemic has now assisted over 5,500 families so they could stay in their apartments. Marjy Stagmeier, a landlord of affordable housing in the Georgia capital city, is helping ease the burden on tenants through fundraising for the nonprofit she founded, the Star-C Program. …
That's all for now.
2 stories so far today and 23 yesterday, from news around the world. More arrive through the day, and tomorrow starts over.
©なりたんこーぽれーしょん · Privacy