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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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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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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78-year-old Dale David may be blind but that did not stop him from bowling a perfect 300 game during All-League Playoffs at Century Lanes in Iowa. You had to see it (or not see it) to believe it.
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A new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that performing intense household chores can do more than make your counters sparkle. The study revealed that just 20 minutes of exercise a week including everything from cleaning to jogging can impact depression and improve mental health.
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Moon, a Siberian husky, was finally reunited with her pet parents after running off at a road trip rest stop a week ago. The dog traveled nearly 80 miles across Nevada's high desert and two mountain ranges to amazingly find her way back home. And she didn’t even have a GPS.
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A New Jersey programmer decided he wanted to do something more original then just getting down on one knee. Instead, Bernie Peng reprogrammed his sweetie's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so that a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
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After investing $105 million in drug rehabilitation centers and vocational courses, Ho Chi Minh City is celebrating the success of their pilot project. New reports show that the rehabilitation centers have helped more than 13,700 ex-addicts integrate into their communities over the past five years, with 71 percent of them finding jobs.
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Wendy Petherick was rescued from the jaws of a crocodile in Australia’s Litchfield National Park after her husband Norm quickly jumped onto the croc’s back, bravely wrestling his wife free and forcing the animal to flee.
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For the first time ever, Boeing has flown a manned airplane powered by a hydrogen battery, a historic technological breakthrough that could create a greener future for the airline industry.
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