Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s conservation foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population. This donation will be used used for an initiative to double the number of tigers in Nepal by 2022 – the next Chinese year of the tiger.
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Google India is planning to get 50 million women in India to use the Internet by the year 2015, this new initiative aims to bridge the gender digital divide by providing women with easier access to technology. The initiative involves setting up easy Internet access points for women across the country and a toll-free helpline.
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Chum salmon are spawning again at an urban creek in the heart of East Vancouver after disapearing for 80 years. The salmon returned this week to Still Creek, which sits in a ravine surrounded by warehouses and a nearby Skytrain line. The creek was once one of the most polluted streams in the province.
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A street singer in Berling Germny was shocked to suddenly get a surprise in the form of the original performer of the song he just sang, the original performer who was walking his dog, joined the street singer.
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Ellen DeGeneres wanted to pay back for a New Hampshire waitress who picked up the lunch tab of two National Guard soldiers, the waitress paid $27.75 and got the exact same amount back in cash along with a $10,000 check and a 50-inch television.
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According to Mayor Bloomberg, the NYC air quality has hit its highest levels in 50 years, a development officials say has led to fewer deaths and hospitalizations.
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A football coach at a high school near Atlanta,GA is making it possible for kids with special needs to be part of a team sport they wouldnt ordinarily be a part of.
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The site will be on vacation till October 2013, we will come back from our vacation and continue to bring you only good news.
Gabrielle Turnquest, a 18-year-old girl from Florida, passed Britain’s bar exam, making her the youngest person in the exam’s 600-year history to do so.
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When burglars in San Bernardino County, Calif., realized the computers they’d stolen were from a nonprofit that helps victims of sexual violence, they returned them — along with an apology note.
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