A hotel in Sicily found a girl's lost stuffed bear and gave her a five-day VIP vacation before mailing her home with a letter 🐻❤️ Staff staged photos of Rosie at the pool, at the bar, in bed goodnewsnetwork.org/hotel-st…

New research shows elephants can pause their own impulses and choose a more rational course of action 🐘🧠 Scientists presented Asian elephants with a transparent box of fruit. They consistently chose the correct opening instead goodnewsnetwork.org/elephant…

A 22-year-old in Nairobi built robotic hands from recycled plastic that translate a teacher's voice into sign language 🤖🙌 Norah Kimathi founded ZeroBionic to reach 300,000 deaf children in Kenya with almost no access to education goodnewsnetwork.org/kenyan-s…

A homeless man played piano in a church on a cold night. Two years later he's raised $54,000 for charity 🌟🎹 Rhys Wynne-Jones had been homeless for a decade. Now he has a home, a pop star collaboration, and £40,000 raised for homeless charities goodnewsnetwork.org/homeless…

Seven critically endangered penguin chicks just hatched at a South Carolina aquarium. They're calling it the Lucky Seven 🐧🎉 African penguins were predicted to be extinct by now goodnewsnetwork.org/s-caroli…

Aubry Allbridge has Down syndrome. She just led her debut fitness class of 60 people 🌟💪 Her gym instructor noticed she could learn choreography faster than anyone and retain it perfectly. "I love to be on stage. I want to help everyone feel included." goodnewsnetwork.org/22-yo-wi…

Born without arms. Hitting 110 mph. Chasing Le Mans 🏎️✨ Callum Smith fell in love with racing at age 2. Left foot steers. Right foot brakes. 90 mph at Donington. 100 mph at Silverstone. Now 110+. First armless racing driver in history goodnewsnetwork.org/armless-…

An EMT ran back down a mountain for blood, then back up 1,000 feet in 31 minutes to save a dying climber 🦸❤️ Will Soper was teaching a course 2 hours away. Climbed halfway up. Heard the patient needed blood. Climbed back down. Packed a cooler. Ran back up goodnewsnetwork.org/emt-ran-…

A dog found a tiny dying sea turtle on a Welsh beach two years ago. Rhossi is almost home 🐢🌊 5,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Two years at Anglesey Sea Zoo. A helicopter, a transatlantic flight, a retired vet. Almost ready for the Gulf. goodnewsnetwork.org/rare-sea…

A child was scammed out of his most prized Pokémon card at a convention. Strangers rallied to make it right 🎮✨ A YouTuber. A tournament manager. A US Army veteran. All offered to replace the card independently goodnewsnetwork.org/pokemon-…

A Bronx mother lost everything in a house fire. A man on Long Island saw her on the news and decided to help 💛🙏 TD Bank wouldn't let him deposit directly. So he called the reporter. Eight weeks later she graduated college and got a new apartment goodnewsnetwork.org/good-sam…

Uganda just declared Ebola over, then immediately opened clinics across the border to help its neighbor fight it 🌍❤️ Uganda's response to its own clean bill of health: open two clinics across the border goodnewsnetwork.org/who-decl…

A £1 million mobile dental unit is heading to UK homeless shelters and soup kitchens in October 💙🦷 Fillings, extractions, X-rays, oral cancer screenings. Volunteer dentists. Delivered directly to people who can't reach the system goodnewsnetwork.org/mobile-d…

London's Waterloo station just deployed three dogs on regular patrol. It's their last job before retirement 🐾❤️ Riley, 9. Buster, 10. Flo, 11. Two cocker spaniels and a Labrador. Britain's first major train hub to put dogs on regular patrol goodnewsnetwork.org/dogs-pro…

Deep sleep brain waves appear to protect against Alzheimer's. The finding points to new ways to intervene 🧠💤 Higher orexin levels linked to faster cognitive decline. But stronger sleep spindles during deep NREM sleep mitigated the damage goodnewsnetwork.org/deep-sle…

The world's oldest person just turned 117. She never argues, and she almost never compromises 🌟✨She worked as a nanny in India, met her husband there, outlived him by 50 years. "I look forward to seeing what next year brings." goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-o…

Five American cities just hired a sidewalk robot named Dax. Kids love him 🤖😄 He was tested delivering pizzas. Then a city planner called. Now he surveys cracked sidewalks in Texas heat at walking pace while children ask for selfies goodnewsnetwork.org/5-us-cit…

A Vancouver startup is turning logging waste into a replacement for polystyrene foam 🌲♻️ Polystyrene takes 1,000 years to break down. Logging generates enormous waste that sits on forest floors and fuels wildfires. DicinFoam solves both problems goodnewsnetwork.org/wood-foa…

Pakistan just created 249 miles of connected river dolphin habitat. The length of New York State 🐬🌊 The Indus River Dolphin is the world's second rarest. First ever for the species goodnewsnetwork.org/pakistan…

A retired fisherman just gave CPR to a baby otter, and the otter still recognizes the woman who sang it a lullaby 🦦❤️ Gordon Mellish has given CPR to 10 humans. Never an otter goodnewsnetwork.org/man-save…