Hunter Schulz, 10, and Carter Sharpe, 9, have been buddies since they were toddlers. So, it’s not surprising that the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, fourth graders are rather nonchalant about an extraordinary event a while back. It seems Hunter saved Carter’s life. Hunter was plunking around on his mom’s piano. He can’t really play — just…

When the retired couple saw no reason to evacuate their rural Texas home — despite raging wildfires all around them — they looked out the window and were astonished. Their farm had become an oasis for refugee hummingbirds. First dozens, then hundreds swarmed hungrily around Don and Pat Coker’s sugar-water hummingbird feeder. The frenetic little birds took turns, says…

Celebrating their team’s 109th anniversary, Spain’s premier professional soccer team Real Madrid took the field in Guangzhou, China, a few days ago against — yes, count ’em — 109 young soccer players from local teams. It was actually a tight match, 2-1 with Madrid prevailing in the end against the swarm of extremely serious little soccer stars.

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