‘Lucky’ doesn’t begin to describe David Serkin, who beat cancer and won the lottery in his home state of Alberta, Canada. Serkin won $500,000 million last August with a LOTTO MAX game by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, giving the cancer survivor and retiree an...
In late 2023, GNN reported that a construction worker had been rescued from the side of a burning high-rise building thanks to a heroic crane operator. A basket was suspended on the end of Glen Edwards’ crane meant for holding people while they work along the facades...
Last month in Arizona a young man profited unexpectedly from choosing honesty over greed after finding a lost wallet. 14-year-old Cody Chalmers found the wallet while riding his bike in Chandler on May 2nd, finding 300$ cash and credit cards inside. But even though he...
From Florida comes the story of one lucky turtle who was attacked by a predator and lived to tell the tale. Dilly Dally was taken in by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s turtle veterinarians after she was rescued in Port St. Lucie with severe wounds on her front...
At a UNESCO Heritage Site in Peru, archaeologists have announced the discovery of over 100 additional hidden structures belonging to a pre-Incan civilization. Gran Pajatén is located high in the northeastern Peruvian Andes, and was likely a major center of the...
From paying off their child’s credit card debt to donating a kidney, a new survey revealed some of the most life-changing ‘dad acts’ in honor of Father’s Day. The survey of 2,000 Americans uncovered fatherhood stories showing they truly are the most helpful heroes,...
Exercise was in the news recently for being found in an epidemiological study to reduce the risk of colon cancer. But what should be in the news is that a study published 7 years ago is going somewhat viral on the internet thanks to the profile of a popular health...
A natural collaboration has formed between a charity that leads design projects with incarcerated women, and a furniture retailer that hires formerly-incarcerated men. The result? A beautiful end table made in a Japanese style using traditional Japanese woodworking...
Following the tragic drownings of 15 schoolchildren in his home town, an Indian man has started a swimming club that has seen more than 10,000 learn how to handle themselves in the water. He’s narrowed down the introductory course, which focuses entirely on swimming...
A man who visited Mount Everest Base Camp to install a defibrillator as part of his advocacy work has revealed the device saved a woman’s life just three weeks after he left Nepal. David Sullivan is the founder of Code Blue CPR, an organization that trains...
GNN readers loved the story of Mykale Baker, a teen who metaphorically leapt from atop the stage of his high school graduation right into the drive-thru window of his job at Burger King the same night. On Thursday, a Georgia mom who had watched both Baker’s graduation...
A pair of identical twins have just celebrated their 100th birthday and named their secrets for a long and happy life. Bill Casey and his twin brother Jack celebrated their centenary together with cake, drinks, and friends at a retirement home in Oxfordshire, England....
From West Australia comes the story of some ‘lucky’ misfortune, as a pair of road-tripping Frenchmen found a “second home” in a small town. Nannup has just 1,500 inhabitants—many of whose hands were on deck to help the tourists after they hit a kangaroo and wrecked...
A Georgia woman was so blown away by the work ethic of a teen who clocked in for a late evening shift at Burger King just after graduating high school, she decided to help with his college tuition. Setting up a GoFundMe to tell the youth’s story, it raised $20,000 in...
The tombs of three ancient Egyptian officials have been discovered in Luxor, the Egyptian government has stated, marking yet another discovery from the famous city on the Nile. In February, the tomb of pharaoh Thutmose II was found not far from the Dra’Abu El Naga, an...
Educating and encouraging people to reduce their waste footprint doesn’t always have to be done through fear or social pressure, it can be fun and empowering as well. That’s what the SoleSpace Lab in Oakland is doing—reducing the amount of waste from the footwear...
Two amateur English archeologists made a major find at a famous site in Britain when they turned up a carved relief of the winged goddess of victory. Believed to have been part of a much larger ornament, the pair found it during their 21st year of volunteer...
A Kurdish militant group has officially agreed to disband and halt a 40-year insurgency. Called the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or the PKK, the decision came in early May following the organization’s 12th Party Congress, in which it was determined that the quest for...
A grandmother who suffered a deadly brain bleed has made a miracle recovery—after doctors told the family five times that she wouldn’t survive. Millie Beckett ended up in a coma for three weeks after the massive hemorrhage, but her devoted husband never left her...
From Canada comes the story of a lost family heirloom finding its way home in the most bizarre series of circumstances. Kelly Brown, a member of the Aurora post of the Royal Canadian Legion, sat at her home last week in shock: staring at what appeared to be a...
A woman who “never liked dogs” has been walking and biking around the world with a street dog that she found neglected and covered in fleas. An Australian cattle dog, ‘Butch’ must now be among the most well-traveled dogs on the planet, having been taken in by a woman...
The title of a 2,000-year-old Greek philosophical text has been read by computer scientists using AI to study scrolls buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. On Vices was written by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before Vesuvius’...
An Iranian-born British lawyer has made history as the UK’s first High Commissioner to come to the country as a refugee. Fleeing the post-revolutionary landscape to arrive in Great Britain without a word of English on his lips, Kanbar Hossein-Bor admitted his mother...
From Pennsylvania comes the story of a man who had to make the difficult decision to put down his dog, but who couldn’t believe the sendoff he received from the local Texas Roadhouse. Receiving a to-go order with the note “last meal for our dog,” the staff made sure...
