At just four years old, Autumn California Bailey is already a skateboarding success with more than 120,000 Instagram followers. Autumn, from Brighton, has been inspired by the Olympic performance of Sky Brown and has dreams of competing in future games.

Scarlett Harper is fearless, especially when it comes to bees. When the 11-year-old Illinois resident learned the bees in her neighborhood were being wiped out by mosquito pesticides, she launched a campaign to save them. "Go make some phone calls, get some state reps on board, let's do this!" she said on Instagram in May.

“Bruce got sick and needed my help,” said Bryson Kliemann, 8. “I was super sad. I didn’t want to lose my best friend.”

Magawa the rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, is retiring from his job detecting landmines. In a five-year career, the rodent sniffed out 71 landmines and dozens more unexploded items in Cambodia. But his handler Malen says the seven-year-old African giant pouched rat is "slowing down" as he reaches old age, and she wants to "respect his needs".

Aaron Wylie learned two things over the course of two searingly emotional days this week. On Tuesday afternoon, he learned that his mother has terminal liver disease. By Wednesday morning, he'd learned that if you put out a desperate call for help, Maritimers are going to answer that call in spades.

Nupur Gupta was nearing the end of a two-week stint teaching at a yoga retreat in Goa, India. It was February 2019 and the weather was balmy, bathing Goa's famous beaches in a warm glow. The sea glistened, invitingly. In between yoga practice, Gupta always made time for a swim.

Alvin Bamburg was determined to get everything on the 4-year-old's Christmas list — including a puppy.

A cat in Turkey melted hearts after walking into a hospital carrying her new-born kitten in her mouth seeking medical help. Video footage recorded in a hospital in the Karabaglar district in Izmir, Turkey, showed the cat walking into the hospital with its kitten clutched in its mouth.

The maternal instinct is one of the strongest forces in the world. We could find many stories of maternal instinct in animals, but in this post, we would like

The request came in late on a Thursday afternoon to restaurant owner Steve Chu. One of his customers had terminal cancer, and her son-in-law wondered if it would be possible to get the recipe of her favorite broccoli tempura entree so he could make it for her at her home in Vermont.

A former substitute teacher who was living in his car was gifted with a $27,000 check by a former student. Jose Villarruel, lovingly known as "Mr. V" by his students, turned 77 years old on Thursday. His former student, Steven Nava, now 21, decided to arrange a celebration for Villarruel.

A 6-year-old British girl born with one arm was thrilled to learn that her GoFundMe page had raised enough money for a new bionic arm. TODAY’s Hodo Kotb has your Morning Boost.

For many families, trying to find fun activities during quarantine has been challenging. One Canadian father found the perfect project for his son to work on that will keep the neighborhood dogs entertained, too.

A 7-month-old kitten named Juicebox could have lost all nine of his lives when his family's dog attacked him. Instead, he was saved by some innovative veterinarians and a handful of plastic buttons.

After losing her baby cubs in two different pregnancies, the Detroit Zoo's 8-year-old polar bear, Suka, successfully gave birth to two cubs on Nov. 17. The two unnamed cubs are the first polar bears to be successfully born and raised in the Detroit Zoo since 2004, the zoo said in a news release this week.

Dogs and humans have a special connection; afterall they are called a man's best friend. Many dogs have specialised training to help the ill or the injured and even non-trained dogs seem to sense whenever their owners are unhappy. However, one particular dog’s sympathy for his owner resulted in a big financial hiccup for his dad.

A baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after it was revived by an off-duty rescue worker. Mana Srivate told Reuters news agency he had performed dozens of resuscitation attempts in his career - but never before on an elephant.

When Derek Prue Sr. noticed his son wasn't comfortable with a large birthmark, he decided to do something to help him feel more confident.

It’s a time-honored tradition to write to Santa Claus. But some kids don’t want the latest toy or a new iPhone — they just want to help their family pay the bills or to be loved. A recent photo posted on Twitter of a letter to Santa from a little boy named Will is striking a chord around the world.

“He knows that the dog has the same condition as he does," said the boy's mother, Ashley Boyers. "He understands.”