Good news from around the world: rescues, breakthroughs, and communities making progress, checked against original sources and told without the doom.
Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on international law, capping a career that began as an anti-apartheid lawyer in Durban.
The WHO says global road deaths dropped 21% between 2011 and 2025, despite over a billion more vehicles on the road. Progress is wildly uneven.
Erasto Crisanto Valdez followed a fish into a Mexican cave and got lost. Fifteen days and 100 metres underwater later, divers heard him call back.
NYC rat sightings are down 22% this year. The city's answer wasn't poison or traps, it was getting trash off the sidewalk and into sealed bins.
A hospital in Trinidad ran cataract surgeries nonstop for 12 days. By the end, 3,000 people who couldn't afford the wait could see again.