A Holocaust survivor from Israel donated money to buy a $1,200 medical bed for a 102-year-old non-Jewish woman from Warsaw, who risked her life to save Jews from the genocide. Krystyna Danko, who is now deaf and blind, is among the oldest rescuers still alive.

The author of a message in a bottle has been located some 50 years after he threw it into the Indian Ocean. Paul Gilmore, then 13, dropped the bottle into the ocean while sailing with his family on a liner from the UK to Melbourne. On Tuesday, his note was found in South Australia by 13-year-old Jyah Ellott who was out fishing with his father.

NYPD Lieutenant Louis Sojo, Officer Michael Rivera and Officer Esnidy Cuevas, who were on a Fourth of July detail in Manhattan, said they first noticed the woman when security stopped her near the exit of the Union Square store.

There's this feeling of accomplishment and excitement that comes from buying your very first house.

My teenage nephew’s life was short and difficult, but the players and developers of Elite Dangerous came together to bring unexpected happiness to his last moments.

Some people who saw Paul and Kris Scharoun-DeForge from a distance felt pity for them. Others discouraged them from getting married. But the couple, both of whom were born with Down syndrome, believed they were the luckiest people in the world. In fact, their family believes they might have had one of the longest marriages of any couple with Down syndrome. And one of the happiest marriages of anyone — with Down syndrome or without.

Elizabeth Barker Johnson stood frozen in the doorway, gripping her walker tightly, as the lights flicked on, revealing 60 of her closest loved ones. It wouldn’t be the last surprise of the day as the World War II veteran celebrated her 99th birthday. After cake, Johnson was presented with a ruby-red cap and gown and an invitation to finally walk at Winston-Salem State University’s graduation, 70 years after she completed her teaching degree there.

Tinney Davidson gave her neighborhood 12 years of warm hellos. And now that she is moving to an assisted living facility, they got together to give her the sweetest surprise goodbye. Davidson, 88, moved to Comox, British Columbia, with her husband in 2007, according to CNN's news partner CBC. Their home was near a high school, and every morning the couple would wave to the students passing by on the way to school.

Are you truly living a life worthy of your greatest self? Or are you just existing, getting by day to day? You should be enjoying yourself much more than you are stressing yourself out. If not, you need to re-evaluate what you are doing. 

A 19-year-old crane operator is being praised for his quick thinking after he saved 14 people from a burning building in China, Shanghaiist reports. Lan Junze was working at a construction site in Fushun when he saw a seven-story building go up in smoke nearby. In a viral video, Lan is seen using the crane to help residents escape the fire, which appears to have started on the building's ground floor. One of those saved was Dong Xiuyan, who lived on the third floor.

A 35-year-old physical therapist and yoga instructor who went missing in the Makawao Forest Reserve on Maui, Hawaii, two weeks ago has been found alive, according to her family and a Facebook page devoted to the search. Amanda Eller was found Friday in a creek bed between two waterfalls by three volunteers searching the area by helicopter. The Maui News reported that Eller was injured, but did not elaborate. Photos on the Facebook page showed her with bruised and swollen feet and a smudged, but smiling, face.

Thousands of people, some of whom drove hundreds of miles, packed the funeral of a Korean War veteran they'd never met when they heard his family couldn't come. Hezekiah Perkins had prepared for the funeral more than 20 years ago. He'd prepaid for the ceremony and the burial, the funeral home said on its Facebook page.

Dementia affects 850,000 people in the UK

OREM, Utah (AP) - When John Frey's family requested 101 birthday cards to celebrate the World War II veteran's 101st birthday in Utah, they were expecting to get 500 at most. At a celebration on June 8, a day after his birthday, Frey ended up with well over 5,000 cards, the Daily Herald reports.

This little boy almost celebrated his 4th birthday alone, until nearly 100 guests surprised him.

'Chance for a new start', the Croatian government have gotten creditors on board a plan to erase the debts of some 60,000 poorest citizens. The “fresh start” scheme targets less than 1 percent of the entire debt, but is hoped to boost the economy in the long-term.

The generous gambler won the cash on a fruit machine after betting just $20.

An estranged brother and sister were reunited - after reportedly matching with each other on Tinder. Erik de Vries and Josephine Egberts had not seen each other since their parents split up in 1999, when Erik and his twin brother moved to Belgium with their father and Josephine remained in Holland where she had grown up with their mother. Erik had tried to track his sister down in the intervening years without success.

YOU’D BE HARD pressed to find someone who hasn’t been effected by cancer in some way or another. But what do you even say when you discover a loved one is going through it? Emily McDowell, a former creative director, decided to create a range of cards to help you find some words. McDowell herself went through nine months of chemo to beat Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at just 24.

Birthrate for teenagers across state plunge by 40 percent from 2009 to 2013, rate of abortions fall by 42 percent.

RICHMOND — More than 400 years after Pocahontas, arguably the most famous Pamunkey Indian, saved the life of Englishman John Smith, the tribe once again made history Thursday by becoming the first Indian tribe in Virginia to be recognized by the federal government.

The mother of a little boy who accidentally smashed a historic jug at an Ipswich museum says the family is "thrilled" it has been fixed.

The woman, Amber Pangborn, 35, of Oroville, made a hasty decision to take an unfamiliar shortcut while driving to her parents’ house after going into labor. Instead, she got lost. “I thought we were going to die,” she told KCRA-TV. “And there was no cell service, there was no ... there was nothing.” But Pangborn’s baby wouldn’t wait and she had no choice but to give birth alone. She named her daughter Marisa. And then came the bees and mosquitoes.

LEGO’s toy dominance over the last half century has been built on petroleum-based plastics. The toy company is investing hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to research, development and implementation of new, sustainable, raw materials to manufacture LEGO elements as well as packaging materials. By 2030, the Danish-based toy company says that their plastic bricks will no longer be made from the oil-based plastic in the 60 billion blocks LEGO produces each year.

The decision by Huff Post to dump Trump into entertainment section draws cheers and jeers.

Reading to kids is not the way most 16-year-olds would spend their morning, but Ryan Traynor is not most kids. The California teenager was just 11-years-old when he started volunteering through his local library, going into schools and reading to children, to earn a Boy Scouts of America merit...

Kristen Bell helped make one special girl named Avery a princess of Arendelle.

Kids can get wrapped up in the smallest things. If they are different in any way, it can become something other kids will pick on. Making them feel different or that they stand out in any way can hurt their self-esteem and some kids can’t take any more than they already have.Sarah Ivermee found a solution when her friend’s daughter was uncomfortable with wearing her hearing aid to school.

To celebrate his birthday, Tim and his family hold an annual hug-a-thon at his restaurant, Tim's Place, to raise money for Firefighters Random Acts, a nonprofit run by Albuquerque firefighters.

He wanted to tie his own shoes. Sometimes the best ideas come wrapped in the simplest of sentences like that.

This ad campaign by Great Nations Eat sheds light on this issue by encouraging people in other countries to donate to hungry Americans.

The picture was among the hundreds snapped the night of Cooper Bassett's wedding. In the picture, you can see the former Tuttle High football standout turned Oklahoma State football standout. He is hugging a little girl. She has oodles of curly red hair. She is wearing a sparkly purple dress. You can't see her face, but you can see his. And in his expression, you can sense how much Cooper Bassett and Taylor Brandt love each other. She is his Taylor, and he is her Cooper.

"Parents can return part-time, full-time, or return and then go back out as needed."

Jaden Hayes is determined not to let sadness overcome him or anyone else

Helpful locals in Instanbul have saved a tourist’s car from falling off an edge into the Bosphorus, a strait that separates Asia and Europe, by sitting on the front of the car until a crane arrived.