Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia had her birthday on Sunday. But this wasn’t just any old birthday. She turned 116, making her the oldest person in world. NBC notes that Besse Cooper is only the eighth person to reach this age and the fourth American to do so. Born in 1896,Continue Reading
“There used to be 84 countries in the Olympic Games, now there are 204. Performance levels have become so much higher that it is so hard now to get a medal. I thought, it’s time this increase in the competitiveness and the standards was taken account of.” And with that,Continue Reading
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father’s attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling: an audio reel labeled, “Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960.” He wasn’t sure what he had until he borrowed a friend’s reel-to-reel playerContinue Reading
Lions are known as some of the most ferocious animals on the planet, so a tender moment between a father and his cub captured on camera in the wilds of Africa is generating a lot of buzz. “The lion photos have hit it quite big because it’s the cub meeting his dad for the first time ever,” saidContinue Reading
With graduation on the horizon, David Boone knows better things are coming his way. In the fall, the 18-year-old will head to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University. But for Boone, life hasn’t always been easy. The Ohio native had a rough upbringing in Cleveland, but he didn’t let hisContinue Reading
(Reuters) – Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters golf tournament, finally ended an all-male policy that had endured for 80 years when it announced on Monday that two women would be admitted as members for the first time. Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and financier DarlaContinue Reading
When was the last time that you received an actual handwritten letter in the mail? If you are like most people, then it probably has been a while. Nowadays it is so easy to get in contact with people by email, telephone, text, twitter, facebook (eek!), that many choose notContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our MilkyContinue Reading
Calling all “Rudy” fans. This one’s for you. Marc Panu is a fourth-year walk-on on Vanderbilt University’s football team. During the preseason camp, head coach James Franklin was showing the team a film of their plays when all of a sudden, to Panu’s surprise, the attention turned to him. FranklinContinue Reading
Did your high school teacher tell you that you could only learn English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, or German? Well Good World News is showing you that there are MANY more options 🙂 There are roughly 7000 languages spoken throughout the world!! Unfortunately, if nothing is done, 50% of these areContinue Reading