ABC reporter Will Murray was filming flash flooding north of Brisbane when a ute drove into deep water and began to sink. He handed his phone to his camera operator, swam out with bystander Daniel Hainey, and pulled the driver free seconds before the car vanished.
Kahri Salyars was proud of losing 40 pounds, until her TikTok video drew a month of cruel comments. Then a flood of kindness buried the hate. The people behind it were Tyler Brickley’s secret, half-million-strong Kindness Mob.
Musician Cash Jacobs, who has stage 3 breast cancer, posted a video asking Miley Cyrus to shave her head before chemo. She didn’t meet her idol at the first Hollywood Bowl show. Then Cyrus flew her back for the second one and picked up the clippers herself.
Ebro Ahmed, 27, was kicking a soccer ball outside his family’s St. Paul corner store when a school bus rolled by with its door open and the driver in a medical emergency. He sprinted, jumped aboard and stopped it in under 15 seconds. Days later, Superman showed up with a $1,000 check.
Ocean Silva, 21, flew from Boston to Honolulu to give his mother Lisa one of his kidneys so she would not have to wait years on a donor list. Two decades earlier, she had prayed beside his hospital bed when he nearly died as a newborn. After surgery, doctors said the kidney worked immediately.
Seven-year-old Isabella Myers was handed a mysterious box in her Greensboro school office. Inside was a golden lamp, a nod to the Aladdin movie she loves watching with her mom. She rubbed it and wished for her mom to come back. Seconds later, her Air Force mom walked in.
Graham Stockwell was born nearly four months early, weighing one pound and nine ounces. Days after he finally came home, Florence firefighters helped save his life. On his fourth birthday, his family brought him to see the fire trucks and found the same crew waiting.
A 77-year-old man who had come to renew his passport was lost near JEM in Singapore with no phone, while his family searched all afternoon. ITE student Naira Maisara Binte Abdullah was about to cycle home. Instead, she walked him 30 minutes to his door.
Irishman Patrick Mohr’s gold wedding ring slipped off his finger into a fast mountain stream in Italy. Three Italian strangers roped themselves to boulders and dived for it until they found it nine days later, then flew to Ireland dressed as hobbits to give it back.
The night before Roze Mulen returned to her nursing job after two months away for her mental health, a cashier named Tim at the Trader Joe’s in Bloomington, Minnesota, asked how she was doing and actually listened. Then he walked away and came back with flowers and chocolates.