A 22-year-old U.K. mother revealed what a good Samaritan told her as she was about to kill herself by jumping off a building. Charley Wills said that a woman happened to see her and stopped her from jumping.
The mother of a Welsh boy said he lost his eye after being struck twice in the same eye by a Nerf gun. Taylor-Jay Ravicini, 9, was hit in the eye by a Nerf projectile when he was 3 years old, forcing doctors to perform surgery.
A parrot that was kicked out of the National Animal Welfare Trust sanctuary for swearing learned how to use Amazon’s Alexa and orders items online when the owner is away, Sanctuary worker Marion Wischnewski volunteered to take the parrot, named Rocco, in at her home in Blewbury, Oxfordshire.
There’s some powerful New Year’s energy in the air. Now’s the time to harness those vibes and head into a fresh year ready to become more healthy, awesome, and powerful. Whether you need help thinking up resolutions for the upcoming year or want something small and specific enough that you’ll actually stick to, we’ve got a great list of 44 resolutions to choose from.
There are roughly 500,000 children in the foster care system at any given time in the United States. Many of these children come from abusive, neglectful homes while others are simply abandoned.
A judge praised two young drug dealers for their grammar and punctuation in text messages as they were spared jail. Judge David Hale said texts written by Brandon Kerrison and Luke Rance were of a much higher standard compared with messages normally sent during drug exchanges. One message read “Mad flavours from 10 tonight let me know for more details".
Eight and a half years after it was abandoned in the middle of the Indian Ocean when 16-year-old solo sailor Abby Sunderland had to be rescued in rough seas, a yellow yacht named Wild Eyes has been found floating upside down off the coast of South Australia. The 40-foot yacht was encrusted with barnacles, the signature eyes on the hull scratched and faded. Its mast snapped off in the wild weather that forced Sunderland’s rescue midway through her world record attempt to be the youngest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe in 2010.
Each parent has their own way of disciplining their child. There is no parenting rulebook that individuals can implement. Recently, a father from Ohio was criticized for making his 10-year-old daughter walk to school in the bitter cold. But even in the face of backlash, he’s not relenting.
A Chinese spacecraft on Jan. 3 made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, state media said. The lunar explorer Change 4 touched down at 10:26 a.m. local time, China Central Television said in a brief announcement at the top of its noon news broadcast.
In a heartfelt meeting in April 2017 on Dr Phil’s show, Simon and Abba, who used to be known as the “caged kids,” were reunited after 10 years. The teens had no idea they were about to come face to face with the man who was instrumental in saving them from their “cages,” where they were kept by their adoptive parents.