A five-year-old boy fighting cancer is getting a little boost from the community just in time for Valentine's Day. Timmy Nelson, a kindergartner at Waverly City Schools, has been forced to miss school recently. Timmy and his family just learned the tumor on the roof of his mouth is cancerous.

In late January 2016, a Danish aid worker went on a rescue mission on the streets of Nigeria, and discovered a starving child on the edge of death. The moment was captured in a haunting photograph, in which she tilts a water bottle toward the frail young boy's lips. One year later, the same boy is starting school after a full recovery, and a recreation of his first photo shows just how far he's come.

Kiersten Miles had been nannying for only three weeks when she made the decision. The baby girl whom Miles had started caring for had a rare, life-threatening liver disease in which her liver’s central bile duct had been inexplicably destroyed and bile was building up into her liver, the baby’s mother said. The whites of her eyes were grey. Her skin was yellow. And some doctors predicted that the child might not live past her second birthday.

The 20th anniversary is known as the “china anniversary.” But for Cindy and Scott Chafian of Suffolk, Virginia, the celebration revolved around something even more delicate — and infinitely more precious. Cindy, 45, has a genetic disorder called polycystic kidney disease, which causes cysts to grow inside the kidneys. The cysts make the kidneys larger than they should be, and damage the kidney's tissues which can lead to further complications.

Just a few years ago, Cara Brookins and her four kids felt trapped -- powerless to stop the domestic abuse happening around them, prisoners inside their own walls. You see, for a short time, Brookins was married to a man who she says “descended into full-blown paranoid schizophrenia.” And even after the two were divorced, he continued to come around and frighten her family. “During that period, I remarried to a man who I thought was strong enough to handle it,” she told CBS News. “But I was wrong and he turned out to be a very violent man.”

A second-grade student at Community Christian School in Bradenton knows the meaning of putting others first. For months, 8-year-old Jeffrey Holz has been saving up for the Lego set he’s always wanted. But with a $100 price tag, it wasn't easy. "Birthday money, Christmas money," listed Jeffrey. "Earning money from cleaning, earning money working at the cafe at church." By the middle of January, Jeffrey was just $12 short of his goal. Then he learned about a senior at his school who’s been fighting cancer, and decided he had a new plan for his hard-earned cash.

The night Melissa Dohme almost died was also the night she met the man with whom she would one day fall in love. But that night, in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 2012, romance was far from the mind of both Dohme and her future fiancee, Cameron Hill. That night, Dohme was fighting for her life, bleeding from 32 stab wounds inflicted upon her by an ex-boyfriend.

When 15-year-old Hari Raghavan was diagnosed as having retinitis pigmentosa and started losing his vision, his elder sister Shanti Raghavan was working as an information technology professional in the United States. “We called him over to the US,” she recalls. “Though his eyesight had deteriorated a little, my husband and I took him to see cool touristy places like Niagara Falls.” She had him look at colors in contrasting arrangements so he could see with the little vision he had.

An 11-year-old boy wanted to be strong for his cancer-stricken grandfather, so he decided to shave his own head. But when his classmates made fun of his new hairstyle, the school’s principal took matters into his own hands. Tim Hadley has been a principal at Pekin Middle School for the past three years. But this week, the principal taught his students an unforgettable lesson on acceptance.

A couple who missed their last train home and were stranded in freezing January weather say their lives have changed after they met a kind-hearted homeless man. Charlotte Ellis and boyfriend Taylor Waldon, both aged 22, were on their way home from a night out in Covent Garden, London, when they realised the train station gates were closed and, in their "drunken state", they had missed their chance to get back.

A Michigan man is lucky to be alive after his dog protected him after a New Year's Eve accident. Bob, whose last name hasn't been released, ran outside in only his slippers, long johns and a shirt to get a log for his fireplace during a commerical break leading up to the New Year's Eve programming, The Petoskey News-Review reported.

A women was ready to catch the bus to go home at night,but then she realized she couldn’t go anywhere, except on foot. While walking toward the bus stop, a homeless man approached Caroline Santana asking for some change. She had been searching her purse for her bus pass, and promised the man she would give him some money as soon as she could find any. Soon enough the Brazilian student started thinking she didn’t have the bus pass—or money to pay the fare—and started to worry.

Four days ago, Lamar Austin became the proud father of the first baby born in Concord, losing his job after missing work to be with his family at the hospital. He chose to remain positive, he said, focusing on his new son instead of the job he lost. “Sometimes you lose something and you get something even better,” he said Sunday afternoon while resting at Concord Hospital with his wife, Lindsay, and baby boy, Cainan.

A dog that no one wanted and was almost euthanized alerts her new owner and neighborhood to a potentially dangerous gas leak. “She is our hero dog because we do not know what the outcome could have been,” said Kailey’s owner, Suzy Chandler. Three-year-old Kailey was adopted last month by Suzy Chandler, but before that the Sheppard mix spent a year on the DeKalb County Animal Services adoption list and came close to being euthanized.

It's not often that video games can bring a tear to your eye but players of "Star Wars: The Old Republic" pulled it off. In the days following the death of actor Carrie Fisher, who famously played Princess/General Leia Organa in four "Star Wars" films, dozens of players of the online video game united together to pay tribute to her. According to a gameplay video made by Youtube user Kerry-Aiden Nobbs, one player of "Star Wars: The Old Republic" created a painstakingly detailed recreation of Princess Leia and other players of the game traveled to greet and honor the avatar.

Here's a reminder that people are kind and the internet can be a beautiful place. One of Angela McElhiney's prize possessions is a video of her son Nathan singing "Wayfaring Stranger." That video became even more precious when he committed suicide in October -- a month and a day before his 16th birthday. "It's about someone going, basically, to heaven," she said. Unfortunately, the sound quality is not very good. The performance was held in a gymnasium and you can hear a lot of shuffling and coughing in the background.

An Indian diamond tycoon has thrown a mass wedding for 236 fatherless brides and given each of them gifts worth thousands of pounds. In India the ritual of kanyadaan - giving away one's daughter in marriage - is a cherished tradition but many young women, especially from impoverished communities, are deprived of it. But multi-millionaire Mahesh Savani has come to the rescue, paying for a huge wedding in Gujarat yesterday and performing kanyadaan for all of the brides.

Marcus Wallace was 20 when he first saw his birth certificate. It named a woman he never met as “mother.” Curious, he stepped into the New York Public Library to look for clues — and got the shock of his life. A library worker found a 1985 newspaper story on Dorothea Ballas, a 21-year-old student at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ. Ballas had given birth in her dorm room, put the newborn in a trash bag, knotted the top and dropped it in a dumpster behind a gas station, leaving the boy to suffocate or freeze in 20-degree temperatures.

It's being called a Christmas miracle, and it happened just in time for Christmas for one Chicago family with a sick child. The phrase “Christmas miracle” gets thrown around a lot this time of year, but what just happened to a 5-month-old boy suffering from a rare disease may qualify. Little Daniel McCabe was at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, waiting for a liver transplant that could save his life due to a rare liver disorder called biliary atresia. As it turns out, he didn’t have to wait long at all.

Rio Ferdinand has donated toys worth £500,000 to charity as part of a drive to ensure children do not go without presents on Christmas Day. The former Manchester United footballer made the donation to Key 103’s Cash for Kids and the Mission Christmas Appeal campaign. Ferdinand, a father of three, announced his donation live on Key103, telling the presenters: “There are people that are less fortunate than we are so we want to try and help them. We are donating £500,000 worth of toys and gifts."