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The world is full of good news. The following are just a few ...
Over 250,000 people sign a petition sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization at the website 1billionhungry.org calling upon governments to focus on eliminating
world hunger as a top priority. US President Barack Obama hosts a forum attended
by more than 100 young African leaders, where he conveys his country’s wish for expanded
relations and affirms their key roles in helping achieve their respective countries’ goals.
In addition to providing 400,000 Afghan students with safe drinking water and sanitation facilities
in 2009, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announces plans to equip 8000 additional
schools by 2013. Motivated by their concern in observing the
elderly, a group of Canadian high school students develop a new wheelchair braking system that
automatically activates from pressure applied to the armrest as the person is standing up.
In the culmination of a nine-year project, archaeologists successfully piece together
27,000 stone fragments to reconstruct 60 ancient Aramaean civilization sculptures in Germany’s
Tell Halaf archaeological museum. As a grassroots weather forecaster in China,
23-year-old Pang Shupei has become a hero in his Henan province village since his timely
warning of the most severe rainstorm in 260 years helped evacuate and save the lives of
more than 60 people. Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s
very large telescope in Chile are able to create the first ever 3D reconstruction of
an exploding supernova star 168,000 light-years away.
South Korea donates medicines and other relief supplies valued at US$50 million to assist
residents following extreme cold in Peru. British lifeboat crew volunteers of Porthcawl’s
Royal National Lifeboat Institution safely rescue 12-year-old Michael Lally of Wirral
from the sea after his dinghy was swept away by a strong offshore wind.
The United Nations World Health Organization sends 430 metric tons of medical supplies
and equipment in the largest-ever delivery of such aid to Afghanistan, to assist one
million people with medical care�