Category: GoodNews


  • Excitement Builds for Cannes Lions 2025! Celebrating Excellence in Communications Once Again

    Credit: Alexander Migl (CC BY-SA 4.0) โ€“ cropped What a year it has been since we first reflected on Cannes Lions 2024. GNNโ€™s momentum in launching new exciting products mirrors the industry around usโ€”creator-led content is intensifying while advertising is becoming more about making a difference in the world. We at Good News Network are…

  • Body found in search for stag party Scot missing in Portugal

    A body has been found in the search for a Scottish man reported missing in Portugal. Greg Monks, 38, was reported missing last week after leaving the main strip in Albufeira in the Algarve in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Mr Monks, from Cambuslang, near Glasgow, had travelled to the resort on 27 May…

  • Lovelorn Tortoise Found a Year After it Escaped in Search of a Mate at 0.00012mph

    Sarah-Jane Muirie and Ginger the tortoise โ€“ credit, Sarah-Jane Muirie, released Ginger was a lonely female tortoise who escaped from her home one year ago to try and find love. Single for the first time in years, Ginger dug under the garden fence and made a slow getaway across countryside fields following the death of…

  • ‘Good weather’ small boat surge and ‘tax bombshells’

    There is no standout lead story across the fronts of Wednesday’s papers. But a handful touch on small boat crossings. “Now it’s good weather to blame for boat surge!” is the headline in the Daily Express. A photo of the “major new search for missing Maddie” appears on the front, as police resume their hunt…

  • Hydrogen Gas Blend Will Reduce Power Plant’s Emissions by 75%โ€“as it Helps Power 6 States

    Photo provided to ENR by Intermountain Power Agency A coal power plant in Utah is set for a green transformation having reached its decommissioning year, as billions are being set aside to use modernize it with hydrogen gas. A rare geologic feature underneath the plant will allow them to store the gas in copious amounts,…

  • Police start new search near Portugal’s Praia da Luz

    Daniel Sandford Home affairs correspondent in the Algarve, Portugal Watch: The BBC’s Daniel Sandford at the scene of the new search operation Portuguese and German authorities have started a new search for Madeleine McCann in Portugal, nearly two decades after her disappearance. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from an apartment complex in…

  • GoFundMe for Teen Who Rushed to Work Instead of Partying After Graduation Skyrockets to $180K

    Mykale Baker working in his graduation outfit โ€“ credit Maria Mendoza GNN readers loved the story of Mykale Baker, a teen who metaphorically leapt from atop the stage of his high school graduation right into the drive-thru window of his job at Burger King the same night. On Thursday, a Georgia mom who had watched…

  • Suspect in Colorado fire attack planned for a year, FBI says

    A man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators attending a march for Israeli hostages in Colorado on Sunday planned the attack for a year, investigators say. Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, who is charged with a federal hate crime as well as state charges of attempted murder, assault and use of an explosive device, made…

  • The First At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening Device Was Approved by the FDA, Set to Roll Out This Year

    The Teal Wand โ€“ credit Teal Health This year, a revolution in the unpleasant pap smear test will arrive on the American market in the form of the first at-home cervical cancer screening device ever approved by the FDA. Offering the chance to perform a vaginal swab test in the comfort of oneโ€™s own home,…

  • Newcastle A1 police car crash driver detained

    PA Media Mazyar Azarbonyad previously admitted dangerous driving A personal trainer who caused a pile-up of police cars after fleeing from them while driving home from a first date has been sentenced to 14 months in a young offender institution. Seven officers were injured and five police cars damaged in the crash caused by 20-year-old…