A 28-year old Filipino teacher is this year's recipient of the '2009 CNN Hero of the Year' award for his outreach teaching project known as 'Kariton Klassrum' or 'cart classroom' where poor children are taught basic literacy skills and values formation

Was he a hero, a villain or just a well-meaning but misguided doctor who simply wanted the community his patients lived in to be safe and healthy?

Simon Fraser University football star Bernd Dittrich was found unconscious in a university pool on Tuesday. He died Wednesday, plunging the university with 30,000 students into mourning. SFU said an undetected heart condition killed the top athlete.

When the call came in that a shooting was going on at Fort Hood police officer Kimberly Munley sprung into action. Munley was wounded as she took down the gunman accused of killing thirteen at the military base.

Filed November 5 in Los Angeles, the lawsuit accuses Activision of fraudulant inducement and breach of contract among other offenses.

But I'm not really sure yet - its complicated. The word is that his version of the obamacare bill is going to allow states to opt out. The little weasel is taking this approach to offset resistance in Nevada so he can get re-elected.

I've always wanted to try to DJ. Now I can scratch and cross-fade like a beat junkie with the latest karaoke-style video game, DJ Hero. It's so addictive your fingers might actually cramp mid-tune.

General Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle named after him, is a hero in Russia whose upcoming 90th birthday is to be a national celebration. He recently said he regrets that terrorists and gangsters use his design.

Eighteen-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, most commonly known as the 'barefoot robber,' is wanted by the Island Police, the RCMP,and the FBI. His mother describes him as a non-violent caring person who wants to open a shelter for abused animals.

After a turn on the huge budget remake of King Kong, Adrien Brody had returned to his more low key, intellectual movies, but with the news breaking that Brody has signed on to star in the "Predators" reboot, Brody appears to enjoy the action genre

The annual X'09 event in Toronto gave video game lovers a chance to test out new and upcoming titles, such as Guitar Hero-offshoot DJ Hero, zombie-friendly Left for Dead 2 and the ultra-realistic NHL 2010.

With a star-studded lineup of video game releases, manufacturers such as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft hope to resurrect their sales and save the worsening conditions of the gaming industry.

Time to stop being a multitasking super hero. A newly released study shows our brains tend to act like a zombie when it's dealing with different tasks simultaneously.

A true gentleman, a scholar and a courageous reformer has passed away in South Africa. Former President F.W. De Klerk’s elder brother, Willem de Klerk, died on Friday.

Steven Gerrard is a famous soccer player with both Liverpool and England. A hero to millions, many of whom would probably consider it an honor to hand over to him the control of a simple CD player. But Marcus McGee was one person not so inclined.

Darrel “Shifty” Powers, one of the great heroes of World War II featured in “A Band of Brothers,” died in June. Mainstream media only whispered the event when the death of a hero should be shouted according to Joe Galloway, and for good reason.

Ryan Reynolds has been chosen to play Hal Jordan in “The Green Lantern”, a live-action film based on the DC Comics hero. The film is scheduled to come out in 2011.

A Filipina overseas Filipino worker (OFW) was excitedly welcomed by her family at the Ninoy Aquino International Airpoirt (NAIA). She had returned more than PhP 2 million worth of money and cheques that she saw while picking garbage in Hongkong.

Michael Jackson gets non-stop media coverage befitting a national hero, while the true heroes; our fallen men and women in uniform, often return home and are laid to rest with little, if any appreciation or notice.

There are few bigger rivalries in English soccer than that between Manchester United and Liverpool, as any player who has appeared in a game between the 2 sides, known as the North West Derby, would undoubtedly agree.