Each week, the Brighter Side of News combs the web for the best good news stories from around the world. Enjoy!

At a Pennsylvania barbershop, kids are getting more confident by getting paid to read out loud while getting their hair cut.

Thousands of former Boko Haram militants and abductees in Nigeria left the group this summer and asked to return to their homes.

One day, while William Ross was on his normal two-mile walk to his job he saw something he could really use, a ride.

An act of kindness helped a pair of Utah dog owners check the last box off their dog’s final bucket list.

The Barrón's oldest son, Keaton, died in 2018 when he was 8 years old following a battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

These men were touched once they met a mother and her special needs son. They would soon show that “love” is the universal language.

Diana Donnarumma, 28, required urgent transplant following intestinal failure. She received life-saving organ from Heather Donnelly.

There’s no judgment or side-eye here in Thompson-Gaines’s yard. There is just “Thanks” and “Have a nice day” and “Hope you enjoy that.”

Hundreds of animal rights protesters marched in San Francisco to demand the end of factory farming, chanting, “Humane slaughter is a lie!"

A couple has adopted two sets of twins in one day in order to keep siblings together while "spreading the love."

Distance was no obstacle as Natalie Browning traveled from Virginia to Florida to share her ‘first dance’ with her grandfather.

Two boys in Batesville, Indiana, stopped in their tracks when a funeral procession for a military veteran passed by last week.

When you're as good as friends as Kylie Rappold and Connor Morris are, you tend to help each other out.

The UN Refugee Agency said last month that an estimated 270,000 Afghans had been newly displaced inside the country since January.

A family of Afghan immigrants – forced to flee their homeland during the Soviet invasion – is collecting donations to help local refugees.

Kindness comes when you are least expecting it. It does not have to be huge life-altering changes, rather as small as someone helping out

In a moving video, a fan surprised John Cena after talking how kindness shown by the WWE superstar had helped him during a tough time

The story of a north Edmonton community joining forces to gift a young basketball player a net spread far and wide even to the king himself.

A woman has shared the meaningful note that she received when she adopted her dog.