Celebrating a few of the many positive stories from 2013

Madiba says goodbye

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And The World celebrates his contribution to Humanity

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Pope Francis is elected

A Spiritual Leader who reaches out to us all

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Andy Murray1st British Wimbledon Men’s Singles winner

for 77 years

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And first Scottish Winner since 1896

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Chris Froome – First Kenyan to win the Tour de France

And the second ever Brit

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Child death rates reduced by almost half since 1990

UNICEF report shows that significant progress

is being made to end child poverty

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Gay marriage laws appearing worldwide

Image: © Flickr member Elinor and Liz

Including the UK

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Olinguito - New “teddy bear” speciesdiscovered in Ecuador

Image: bbc.co.uk

Olinguito no longer incognito

Image: smithsonianscience.org

9 year old Asean Johnson’simpassioned speechhelps save his school

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The next President Johnson?

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80% of countries have increasedgender equality since 2006

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The gender gap narrows

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Uruguayans trade-in guns…

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For Bicycles

Rwanda elects a parliamentwith 64% of seats held by women

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The highest percentage

in the world!

UN Secretary General (the one on the left) declares first ever

International Day of Happiness

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First celebrated on 20th March 2013

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Wishing everybody a happy and positive festive season

John, Julie, Isobel, Jack, John and Ben xxx

Lots of the stories were found on: Positive News | Inspiration for a change:http://positivenews.org.uk/

For the YouTube version with musical accompaniment go to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wl64AygVY