Runner gives up her race to help competitor in the Rio Olympics

During the 5,000-meter heats at the Rio Olympic Games, New Zealand’s Nikki Hamblin took a bad fall, accidentally tripping U.S. runner Abbey D’Agostino. The American got back up, and instead of finishing the race, she helped Hamblin back to her feet, encouraging her to finish the race. D’Agostino, who was hurt badly from the collision, fell down again, this time to be helped up by Hamblin. Together, they finished the race well after the others and hugged at the finish line.

Hamblin later said, “I went down, and I was like, what’s happening? Why am I on the ground?’ Then suddenly this hand on my shoulder, like ‘get up, get up, we have to finish this,’ and I was like, ‘yep, you’re right’. This is the Olympic Games - we have to finish this. I’ve never met this girl before, and isn’t that just so amazing, such an amazing woman.”

(Pictured above) Hamblin helps D'Agostino up after she falls a second time.

Young boy calls 911 to invite cops for Thanksgiving dinner

On Thanksgiving Day, a young boy named Billy called 911 to invite the staff and officers of the Walton County, Fla., Sheriff's Office to join his family for dinner.

Warmed by the gesture, two deputies visited Billy and gave him a sheriff’s badge and a chance to sit in their patrol car.

"With all the bad calls we take on a daily basis, this one was a welcomed happy call that made all of us smile," said Lead Communications Officer Monica Webster.

Judge sentences veteran to a night in jail … then accompanies him

Worried about locking up a retired soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), North Carolina judge Lou Olivera joined Sgt. Joe Serna in jail for the entire 24-hour sentence.

Olivera, a veteran himself, said that he had to impose a sentence on Serna, charged with a DUI and for lying about his urine test. However, worrying about the mental trauma that Serna might face in confinement, Olivera decided to join him in his cell. The two spent the night talking about their families and military service.

“It was more of a father-son conversation as opposed to a judge talking to someone and sentencing them. It was personal,” said Olivera.

Manny Pacquiao builds 1,000 homes for the poor

The boxing star and current senator of the Philippines helped build 1,000 homes to help underprivileged families in the Sarangani province of the Philippines.

Paying for the entire project himself, he said, "As faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms, each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others. I'm still building more because I always believe what the Bible says: Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling."