Category: GoodNews


  • ‘No quick fix’ as Martin faces familiar Rangers problems

    Saturday’s draw was particularly galling to Rangers fans considering Dundee arrived with a poor start to their season heaping pressure on their new head coach, former Rangers defender Steven Pressley. Dundee, who managed just two attempts on goal in their opening Premiership defeat at home to Hibernian, had not beaten Rangers in their previous 17…

  • First 3D-Printed Home Made Primarily From Soil is Built in Japanโ€“Ditching Unsustainable Concrete

    First 3D printed Earth House by Lib Work, Ltd Collaborating with robotics engineers and Italian 3D printer manufacturers, a Japanese company is building โ€œhomes of earthโ€ made primarily from soil. Utilizing AI technology from design through construction, Lib Work, Ltd. completed their first 3D-printed earth home in Yamaga, Kumamoto on July 22, calling their creative…

  • Behind the wave of asylum hotel protests

    Tom Symonds Correspondent, BBC News Carl Court/Getty Images “We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children,” Orla Minihane tells me. “If that makes me far-right then so be it.” Orla has lived near Epping since she was a child and describes herself as a “very boring woman…

  • Your Weekly Horoscope โ€“ โ€˜Free Will Astrologyโ€™ by Rob Brezsny

    Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle,ย provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Robโ€™s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author ofย Pronoia Is the Antidote…

  • I made an AI clone of my dead son

    An interview between a US journalist and an AI clone of a teenager who was killed during a school shooting in 2018 has prompted criticism online. Experts say this is one of the first times that an AI avatar of a dead person has been used in this way. BBC Verify’s Jake Horton has been…

  • New Research on Genes Linked to Stuttering Could Be โ€˜Life-Changingโ€˜ for Those with Speech Disorder

    An illustration of Demosthenes of Athens and a photograph of King George VI, both of whom had stutters A genetic analysis of a million individuals with stutters has clued Australian researchers into a potential genetic component that would revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of this common disorder. 400 million people worldwide have stutters, and a…

  • Boy found guilty of Harvey Willgoose murder at Sheffield school

    BBC A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a fellow pupil he stabbed at a school in Sheffield during their lunch break. Harvey Willgoose, who was also 15, died when he was stabbed in the heart at All Saints Catholic High School on Monday 3 February. The jury in a month-long trial at…

  • Good News On This Day in History โ€“ August 8

    41 years ago today, Nawal El Moutawakel, the Amazigh-Moroccan athlete, became the first Moroccan, and the first woman from a Muslim nation to win Olympic gold when she finished top in the 400-meter hurdle event. A member of the IOC, and Minister of Sport for Morocco, she was a pioneer for Muslim and African athletes…

  • Britons booking later, closer, shorter UK breaks, travel firms say

    Elaine Doran & Colletta Smith Cost of living producer & correspondent Getty Images UK holidaymakers are leaving it later to book shorter stays closer to home, travel firms are reporting. The trend is down to people trying to save money while making the most of hot weather, some of the UK’s biggest holiday companies have…

  • Intuition and a Devoted Dog Guided a Man to An Unconscious Couple Whose Lives He Saved

    Hero pitbull โ€“Credit: Gary โ€˜Ellgeneโ€˜ Thynes via Facebook A Pittsburgher and a mysterious dog recently teamed up to save two unconscious individuals in a story that has earned the pair thousands of plaudits. Gary Thynes shared both on Facebook and to local news station WTAE that he was playing with his own dog in a…