50 Questions You Can Ask While Video Chatting to Start a Conversation

Like many others, I have been FaceTiming friends more often to keep in touch. After a conversation with a pal in London, in which we spiraled out about everything from going to the grocery store to our parents' health, she texted me a list: “Conversation Starters” and added, “feel free to add to the list for next time we chat.“Excusez-moi?Do anything but constantly talk about how scary everything feels? The idea hadn’t occurred to me.

50 Starving, Urine-Soaked Dogs — Including Newborn Puppy — Rescued from Home in Houston

Photo: Houston SPCA/Facebook An emergency warrant from Harris County Constable Precinct 1 allowed the Houston SPCA to get onto the Houston Heights property on on Nov. 2 to rescue the animals, according to anews release from the donation-based non-profit. All the animals were miraculously alive. “The animals were living in deplorable conditions as the home was filled with debris, feces, and a heavy smell of ammonia,” the release read. Their Animal Cruelty Investigation team and Harris County Constables Precinct 1 discovered the pups afterneighbors tipped off authoritiesto the neglect case, KPRC 2 News reported.

50 Years After Defining Photo of Vietnam War, Kim Phuc Phan Thi Calls Burn Treatment 'a Miracle for Me'

Photo: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Fifty years after becoming an unwitting face of the atrocity of the Vietnam War, Kim Phuc Phan Thi is aUNESCO Goodwill Ambassadorfor Peace. She runsKim Foundation International,which helps build hospitals, schools, orphanages and libraries for children. Most recently she accompaniedrefugees from Ukraineon their journey to resettle in Canada. “I go everywhere that children need,” she says of her global travels. “I share my story with students. I want them to know about how horrible war is but then how beautiful the world can be if everyone can learn to live with love, with hope and forgiveness.

50-Lb. Tortoise Found Wandering in San Antonio Park After Digging Out of Owners' Backyard

Tortoise found in San Antonio park.Photo: San Antonio Animal Care Services Visitors to a San Antonio park came across an unexpected walker: a tortoise weighing at least 50 lbs. wandering along a trail. According to aFacebookpost from the City of San Antonio Animal Care Services (San Antonio ACS), parkgoers found the tortoise on August 7 in Phil Hardberger Park. The people who saw the animal assumed the reptile was a pet since no tortoises native to the area grow to be so large.

500 Pilot Whales Die After Stranding Near the Shark-Infested Waters of New Zealand

Photo: Tamzin Henderson Nearly 500 whales washed up on a remote island chain in the South Pacific over the weekend. Daren Grover, general manager of rescue organization Project Jonah,told CNNthat most of the pilot whales were already dead when they came ashore, and that the survivors were in poor health and ultimately euthanized. RELATED VIDEO: 230 Pilot Whales Found Stranded on Australian Harbor — Half Are Still Alive and Awaiting Rescue