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The Nature Photography Contest has unveiled its breathtaking 2025 winners, featuring everything from playful wildlife moments to urgent environmental messages. Thomas Vijayan's powerful image of an orangutan pleading for its vanishing forest home took the top prize.
Wendy's is celebrating World Redhead Day with a look-alike contest in New York City, where the winner takes home free burgers for a year. The contest honors the fast-food chain's iconic redheaded mascot, originally modeled after founder Dave Thomas's daughter.
A tech enthusiast is bringing back teletext, the beloved pre-internet information service from the 1980s, by adapting it for amateur radio transmission. The project combines nostalgic technology with modern ham radio capabilities to create a faster, more efficient way to share digital images over the airwaves.
After swapping his saxophone for a microphone in 1987, James Valentine spent 30 years creating a radio style that invited listeners to share life's small dramas instead of politics. The beloved ABC presenter, who died at 64 after choosing voluntary assisted dying, proved kindness and curiosity could transform daytime radio.
After transforming afternoon radio into a daily celebration of ordinary life for over 20 years, ABC Sydney's James Valentine retired to focus on his health, leaving behind a city that credits him with lifting their spirits. His unique approach turned listeners into creative collaborators, proving talkback radio could nourish instead of divide.
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Kim Grimaldo won a radio contest to get married at a Bruno Mars concert, but she forgot one tiny detail—telling her boyfriend first. Two days before the show, she proposed to him on live radio, and he said yes.
Michael Rowse spent nearly two decades building a community radio station from the ground up—all as a volunteer. His daily dedication transformed Howick Village Radio into East FM, connecting neighbors and launching careers along the way.
Africa's oldest community radio station is giving away anti-xenophobia messages to fight fake news and violence targeting migrants. Bush Radio's free PSAs are helping stations across South Africa choose truth over fear.
A volunteer-run community radio station in Perth's hills is turning a frequency change into an opportunity. Kalamunda Community Radio says its new spot at 88.9FM will actually make it easier for listeners to find them.
In villages across Haryana and Rajasthan, women who once sat silent in community meetings are now shaping village decisions, thanks to a grassroots radio station that's broadcasting their concerns and amplifying their voices. Community Radio Connect FM 107.8 is transforming how rural communities share information and who gets to participate.
A hospital radio station that's been bringing joy to patients for seven decades just got the equipment upgrade it desperately needed. Thanks to a grant from Catholic charity SCORE, Radio Odstock can keep broadcasting hope 24/7.
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A 31-year-old who started broadcasting to 16 WhatsApp friends has built a two-hour community radio slot into a 13-presenter station reaching 20,000 listeners across rural South Africa. Sikelela Thobigunya's Bulungula Community Radio now trains local youth and delivers vital news to 70 remote villages.
When Australian radio host James Valentine learned his cancer was terminal, he made a radical choice: his final months would be filled with joy, not anger. His decision to celebrate life until the very end touched thousands who'd laughed with him for decades.
A retired hairdresser who just won £1 million on a radio contest announced she'll donate part of her prize to air ambulance and cancer charities. Joy Haythorne received the life-changing news she's in remission just days before her win.
A graphic novel about a banana named Hanna and a poem about wild weather just earned two elementary students top honors in Kentucky's 2026 Young Writer's Contest. Their creative work stood out among nearly 1,500 entries from students across the state.
The 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest just announced its winners, showcasing breathtaking images of our home galaxy from places like New Zealand, Spain, and Yellowstone. These photographers spent weeks planning and capturing the perfect shots of meteor showers, glowing nebulas, and our galaxy rising over waterfalls and caves.
HNL Lab Medicine is asking young students to imagine their greatest scientific discovery through art. The contest invites kids to fill test tube racks with colorful experiments that could cure the common cold or invent something entirely new.
More than 200 schools across 32 states and six countries entered Chapman University's 27th annual Holocaust Art & Writing Contest, where students turned survivor stories into powerful tributes to hope. Winners presented their creative works alongside Holocaust survivors in an emotional intergenerational gathering.
India's Sustera Foundation is offering cash prizes up to ₹15,000 for short videos about marine litter and coastal conservation. The Sea, Shores & Society contest invites everyone to share creative solutions before June 5.
Astronomers just cracked the code on mysterious radio bursts from space by discovering they come from two stars locked in a cosmic dance. This breakthrough could help us understand a dozen other puzzling signals we've been tracking.
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