Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Holland Will Return a Looted 3,500-Year-Old Stone Bust Following Lavish Egyptian Museum Opening
Having identified a 3,500-year-old bust of a pharaoh among the nation’s antiquity dealers, The Netherlands are turning it over to the Egyptian authorities in a “good faith gesture.” It’s believed to have been stolen during the Arab Spring of 2011-12, when intense...
Delta Airlines Treats Teens to Free ‘Dream Flights’ Inspiring Many to Become Pilots and Engineers
Every year, Delta Airlines hosts a special, one-of-a-kind trip to place the heads of ambitious Black students squarely in the clouds. Climbing aboard a Boeing 757 as it took off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, 100 local teens were the latest...
Three Bob Ross Paintings Sold for $600,000 at Auction in Fundraiser for Public Television
Three works from Bob Ross’ classic public television show The Joy of Painting raised over half a million dollars for public television. Having relied for decades on endowment contributions and pledge drives of every tact and description, it was brilliant idea that...
Teen Rewarded with Cash, Job, and GoFundMe After Turning in Wad of $3,500 ‘Without Hesitation’
From Australia’s Gold Coast comes the story of an honest young man who handed over $3,500 he found at a gas station and was repaid manifold. 17-year-old Josh Pache was the first to notice a wad of Australian dollars sitting on the cement outside Fox’s Pantry. The...
Grand Egyptian Museum Finally Opens in Sight of the Pyramids After Decades of Setbacks
A $1 billion museum built to showcase the finest of ancient Egyptian artifacts has finally been opened in Giza after more than 2 decades of planning, building, and setbacks. Fireworks and drone light shows lit up the desert night. Below, a gala of Egyptian elite,...
World War I Message in a Bottle Found in Australia and Delivered to Families More Than a Century Later
Australian soldiers slipped the letters into a bottle, closed the cap, and pitched it overboard from a ship in the Pacific Ocean as World War I battlefields beckoned them both. The bottle was a time capsule that would be delivered by fate—and it arrived for overjoyed...
Bizarre Deep-Sea Creature Named ‘Death Ball’ Sponge Discovered in Remote Corner of the Planet
30 previously unknown deep-sea species, including the carnivorous “death-ball” sponge, have been confirmed from one of the most remote parts of the planet. The animals were collected during a pair of 2025 research cruises to the waters around Antarctica which yielded...
After More Than Three Centuries, a Geometry Problem That Originated with a Royal Bet Is Solved
A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet on behalf of a long-dead Englishmen who got into a famous argument with his prince. The story begins with an experiment: take two gaming dice, put one on top of the...
Farmworkers Are Heroes After Rescuing 20 Children from Burning School Bus in California
Two California farmers were honored recently for being the first ones to help save over 20 students aboard a school bus that caught fire. Long before the Madera Country Fire Department arrived on scene, Angel Zarco and Carlos Perea were there, and in fact, the pair...
