Every year, about this time, Brandon Bullis and his family from Virginia in the US create a spook-tacular Halloween light show on their house. The Edwards Landing Lights, as they have nicknamed the show, is synced up to a combination of popular songs and some Halloween classics, such as Ghostbusters, Thriller, and Monster Mash. As the music plays, the light flicker and some spooky faces on the front of the ...

Is there anything cuter than a panda? A baby panda! And what's even cuter than a baby panda? FIFTEEN baby pandas! Last weekend, fifteen pandas cubs were inducted into the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding panda kindergarten, class of 2016. Okay, so while you might be imagining an adorable preschool where panda cubs learn how to become panda adults, it's actually only a kindergarten in the loose ...

Pumpkin the raccoon has become something of a celebrity, a beloved star of Instagram. Last year, when she was just a month old, she fell out of a tree and into Rosie Kemp’s back garden in the Bahamas. The poor little mite had a broken back leg and it soon became apparent to Rosie and her daughter Laura Young that Pumpkin has been abandoned by her mother. It turned out that the Bahamas Humane Society, an ani ...

Brotherly and sisterly love. It's a wonderful thing to behold, especially in young children - and it even has the power to save your life. Bradley and his sister Charlotte - or Charlie, as she likes to be known - are five-year-old twins from Elgin, Illinois in the US. The siblings have just started Kindergarten and getting on with their lives in that way that five-year-olds do. You might never have guessed ...

Gissur Simonarson is an activist from Iceland residing in Oslo, Norway and the founder of Conflict News. Thanks to a picture he shared on social media, a family from Syria can get their fairy-tale ending. Simonarson shared a photo with Conflict News' 10,000 Twitter followers, of which 6,000 were moved enough to respond and pass it on themselves. It depicted a man with his daughter asleep over one shoulder, ...

Olivia Allen is only 10 years old and if you ask her what she is going to be when she grows up, the list includes everything from fashion designer to mathematician and actress to news anchor. But it's clear that whatever she is doing with her life, she is going to be helping people along the way. At 10 years old, Olivia Allen is already a philanthropist. Unlike most children her age, Olivia, from Kentucky, ...

If you can encourage kids to read, then you're all right by us. And with children all over the world getting ready to go back to school, Courtney Holmes in Dubuque in Iowa has come up with an innovative and awesome plan for the kids in his area. Last Saturday, Courtney was offering children free haircuts ready for the new school year. The only "catch"? The child has to read aloud during their appointment. C ...

Andy Gregory is the president of Des Champs, Gregory & Hayes insurance agency, and in his spare time, he takes photos of bull-riding competitions. But there is so much more to Andy Gregory. Somewhere in southwest Florida lies Andy's home where he lives with his wife, Debbie. But Andy and Debbie's family is a lot more expanded than you could possibly have imagined, though not with children (in the conven ...

Pride and Glory is a tattoo studio in Graz, Austria, that prides itself on uniqueness. The company believes that just as every person is unique, so should every tattoo be. "We are convinced that no one should take the same tattoo," it says on the website. But over the last couple of months, Pride and Glory has been promoting an additional ideal: anti-racism. Alex Smoltschnik, who runs the tattoo studio, dec ...

The Ebola outbreak in Africa, which was first officially reported on in March 2014, might finally have met its match in a vaccine that has so far proven to be 100% effective. The virus was only discovered in 1976, and this outbreak quickly became one of the deadliest occurrences of it, killing up to five times as many people that all of the other outbreaks put together. In total, so far, more than 28,000 pe ...