What is (are) your favorite storie(s) for 2013?

News stories:

George Zimmerman trial broke my heart.

Batkid helped restore it.

Batkid

The shocking Delhi gang rape at the end of 2012 overflowed into 2013. The horrific rape incident that led to the victim’s death had triggered massive public outrage in Delhi. I’m glad that four of her attackers were convicted and given the death penalty while a juvenile was sentenced to a detention center. He too should have been sentenced to death. The sixth accused died in prison in an apparent suicide

I liked reading that Russian scientists uncovered a 300 million year old aluminum gearbox in a coal deposit. Kinda changes your perspective on current known history of the planet, doesn’t it?

The best twins in the world were born.

The election and surprisingly refreshing pronouncements of Pope Francis I.

, Malala Yousafza addresses the U. N. with a message of peace.

The paying it forward movement grows.

A young cancer patient is in full remissiion after experimental treatment

@Espiritus_Corvus Great question. Everything @YARNLADY said was on my list. Also the way the new Pope is handling his job. Two thumbs up from an atheist.

Nelson Mandela died, and it occurred to me that white supremacists need to explain why the three men who arguably did the most in the last century to advance human rights for all of humanity; Mahatma Gandhi, Dr, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela; all had dark skin.