Sunday’s Positive News For You 11/25/18

Violence against women and girls around the world is still a widespread human rights issue and a symptom of gender inequality and discrimination against women. In 1981, women’s activists at the Feminist Encuentro in Bogota, Columbia, decided to mark November 25 as a day against violence perpetrated on women. The date was chosen because it marked the anniversary of the 1960 assassination of women political activists—three of the Mirabal sisters—under the orders of dictator Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.

• “When you have a big heart, you do something.” Uber driver tells of how he pulled over while carrying a fare to rescue hawk stranded on FDR Drive

  

• Engineers Fly First-Ever Plane With No Moving Parts – and It Was Inspired By ‘Star Trek’

• Kind-hearted postman, 45, digs up battered handbag while planting daffodils and reunites it with librarian, 63, who was mugged 40 years ago

  

• Miracle Home Saves Lives Of Hospital Evacuees During Wildfire

• Pair saved 11,000 dogs by turning their home into a shelter

  

• WSU band learns Husky fight song to play during Apple Cup after UW bus flips on trip to Pullman

• Scientists may have found a way to treat cancer without chemotherapy

• A bus driver is honored for helping a homeless passenger and finding him a place to stay

  

• Pete Doherty donates artwork to charity seeking to rehabilitate prisoners

• Michigan Woman Wins $250,000 Lottery Prize for Second Time by Playing With the Same Numbers

  

• Choose Love: the shop where customers buy gifts for refugees

• Grandma Reunites with Stranger She Accidentally Invited for Thanksgiving 3 Years Ago