A double amputee has his eyes set on gold. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom has the story of a disabled Afghan athlete.
Inside a sparkling new pool house off a dusty, bustling street in Afghanistan's capital, sits a young man with a dream.
Tim Horton was 20 years old and on his first deployment in Iraq with the Marine Corps when a bomb exploded under the Humvee he was driving. It was February 5, 2005.
Military amputees show courage, strength and hope to inspire others during a charity softball game in Washington.
He has yet to compete at the Olympics, but the eyes of the world will be on Oscar Pistorius if he is selected for London 2012.
In the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake in January 2010, a group of dedicated amputees who share a love of soccer emerged as a symbol of survival and rebuilding.
It may be disembodied now, but this cutting-edge robotic arm will soon spring into action as U.S. researchers begin a landmark experiment which, if successful, will see it controlled by mind power.
A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on July 19, 2011, the fastest time recorded by an amputee. The ripple effects of this historic achievement may initiate a paradigm shift in how we view our bodies.
Five year-old Malaak Al-Shami arrived in the U.S. on Thursday evening to get fitted with a prosthetic leg after suffering injuries in Libya's raging civil war.
Double amputee baseball player says he was discriminated against by his high school coach. CNN's John Couwels reports.
The search for a freckle-faced 10-year-old North Carolina girl is over, with police announcing Friday that they had found her remains.
Police say they believe a prosthetic leg that was found is the one that was used by Zahra Baker.
Police on Monday confirmed that a prosthetic leg discovered last week in a brushy area off a North Carolina road belongs to a missing 10-year-old girl.
A prosthetic leg thought to be that of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker has been found in a brushy area off a North Carolina road, Chief Tom Adkins of the Hickory, North Carolina, police said Wednesday.
Police were searching a North Carolina landfill Wednesday for "a piece of evidence" in the case of a missing 10-year-old girl, Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins said.
Authorities are searching a landfill for "a piece of evidence" in the case of missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker.
If cats have nine lives, they may have just acquired a 10th -- thanks to a groundbreaking surgery that saved the life of a feline double amputee.
Record-breaking paralympian Aimee Mullins argues that adversity can open the door for human potential.
People come up to Aimee Mullins all the time and say, "you know, I have to tell you, you just don't look disabled."
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