On Saturday, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros will meet for Game 4 of the World Series. As with any Major League Baseball game, the competition will kick off with a ceremonial pitch. But this one will be especially awe-worthy, featuring a 7-year-old girl with a 3D-printed hand.

A man who gave his "favourite" £120 trainers to a barefoot homeless man says the act has inspired other good deeds after his story was shared around the world. Craig Wells ran out of a restaurant in Nottingham after seeing the homeless man, Mark, walk past wearing no shoes. He said Mark "started to cry and gave me the biggest hug" after the gift. Mr Wells shared a photo on Facebook to encourage other people to "pass it on" and help someone in need.

A fearless goat-herding dog who refused to abandon his flock amid the deadly wildfires in California miraculously survived the flames that torched the property completely. Roland Tembo Hendel said his family and he were shocked to see that their dog, Odin, his sister Tessa, and their eight bottle-fed goats survived the deadly Tubbs Fire that destroyed his property in Sonoma County.

Joseph Badame was a lonely man, still grieving his wife’s death. And then he lost everything. Buried in debt because of eight years of medical bills and lost income, he could not prevent banks from foreclosing on his custom-built New Jersey home — an 8,500-square-foot fortress with separate living quarters for multiple families, plus a massive basement equipped with bunk beds, propane- and kerosene-powered refrigerators, laundry facilities and showers.

Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting time developing free computer games. “They were telling me to look for jobs or I’ll be cut off,’’ says Greene. “I kind of ignored them.”

Its with great pride that I get to tell this story and I count myself very fortunate to have been a part of this wonderful tale of friendship. In February 2015, a group of fishing buddies (Ron, Cliff & Paul) decided to go fishing in Thailand at a place called Jurassic Mountain Resort & Fishing Park. I was a regular visitor to Jurassic Mountain and happened to be fishing at the same time as the three friends. We all had the same intentions, catching the biggest Carp in the lake, which at the time was a 154lb Siamese Carp.

Surveillance cameras are usually installed in homes to prevent negative incidents like package thefts or home invasions, but one incident in the Elk Grove area caught on camera was the complete opposite. Melissa Vang was home with her two young children when she heard someone at the door. Fearing the worst, she ignored it. What she later saw on her surveillance cameras surprised her.

Two Syrian refugee sisters living in Georgia, USA, cooked an assortment of Middle Eastern dishes to welcome a group of 40 people affected by Hurricane Irma. Abeer and Nora al-Sheikh Bakri, who fled their hometown of Douma in 2012 before resettling in Georgia in 2016, told Huffpost that they know what it’s like to lose everything, and thus felt "compelled" to help.

Jacob O’Connor saw his baby brother’s shoe floating in the pool first. Then he saw his body. It had been just a week since the 10-year-old Michigan boy last watched his favorite movie, “San Andreas,” an action drama that stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson rescuing his family from two hours of tragedy — an earthquake, a tsunami and, most relevant to Jacob, a near-drowning.

A FORMER Royal Marine who served in the 2003 Iraq War is selling his war medals to help fund a four-year-old’s £200,000 cancer treatment. Veteran Matthew Goodman, 35, read about little Lottie Woods-John’s battle with neuroblastoma and decided to step in and help the family. Heroic Royal Marine Matthew Goodman is selling his war medals to fund a four-year-old’s cancer treatment.

For more than a year, she was a mystery to Matt Szczur. In fact, he didn't even know her name. But now and forever, the Cubs' jack of all trades will remain part of Anastasia Olkhovsky thanks to the bone marrow he donated that saved her life. Sports fans first met Anastasia and her family via an ESPN "E:60" feature in 2013. Anastasia was the leukemia-stricken child of Ivan and Marina, a couple from Ukraine that was afraid to close their eyes at night for fear their first born might not open hers again.

A teenager who wore the shirt and tie that a Toronto cop bought for him after he allegedly attempted to steal them for a job interview has been hired. Const. Niran Jeyanesan thought he was responding to a routine shoplifting call on Aug. 6 at a Walmart in the city’s north end. The 18-year-old who had allegedly attempted to make off with some clothes had picked out a long-sleeved shirt, a tie and a pair of socks. He told the officers they were meant for a job interview.

Beauty rituals may not be the first thing you think about in relation to mental health, but when an American hairdresser told her story about a teenage client with depression, thousands responded. Kayley Olsson, a 20-year-old student hairdresser in Waterloo, Iowa, posted on Facebook on Tuesday about a girl who came into her salon with densely matted and tangled hair.

This is just amazing! Just a few months ago in June, we shared the news of Jay Wilde, a beef farmer who had a change of heart and sent all of his cattle to Hillside Animal Sanctuary in the UK. And now yet another farmer is now following Jay’s lead and sending his cows to the same sanctuary!

D.C. -- Sam Klein and Tommy Fello had never met, but together they granted a dying woman her last wish. Emily Pomeranz was battling pancreatic cancer and had to be moved to hospice. Her dear friend, Klein, came to visit her and asked if he could get her anything - anything to make her comfortable in this impossible situation she was in. The two friends, now living in the D.C. area, had both grown up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. And they were both very familiar with a local favorite, Tommy’s Restaurant.

When NASA posted a job description for its "planetary protection officer" role, the space agency was fishing for candidates with advanced degrees and experience working on interplanetary missions. What it did not expect, however, was an earnest letter from nine-year-old Jack Davis: a fourth-grader who wrote the space agency asking if he could apply.

Twenty-seven reused and refurbished bikes were donated to local nonprofits today as part of a collaboration between the City of Long Beach, Waste Management Inc. and Pedal Movement. During a ceremony at Bikestation Long Beach in the city’s downtown neighborhood, city officials and local leaders gathered to donate the bikes to Long Beach Blast and Partners of Parks who will give the bikes to at-risk youth and families throughout the city as a means to improve mobility and promote healthy living, reuse and recycling, city officials stated.

I don’t think there are many sports parents out there more enthusiastic than Devon Fowler. You might remember Fowler for surprising his son, Braheim, with a new baseball bat for his birthday around this time last year. He acted like he had forgotten to get Braheim anything, then brought him to tears by surprising him with the bat.

A Kerry woman who emigrated to America in her twenties was awarded her high-school diploma at the age of 107. Hanna Lovett (107) was born in Kerry in 1910 but left school at a young age before emigrating to New York, where she rebuilt her life.

A veteran fishing boat captain jumped into cold, rough waters to save one of his crew members after their vessel capsized off the Alaska coast. US Coast Guard video of one of the rescues shows Captain Christian Trosvig in an orange life vest swimming to a man struggling to stay afloat and pulling him to an awaiting boat. The Coast Guard says the captain of the Grayling leapt into 47-degree water during Monday's terrifying ordeal.