On Friday, April 5, the Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) held a Time 4 Kids fundraiser at Martin Place, a pedestrian mall in Sydney, Australia's central business district.

Over $28,000 was raised for the youth development organization.

Local personalities "did time" in an open jail until their "bail" was raised.

"My original intention was to assist with the promotion of the event through social media," City of Sydney councillor Angela Vithoulkas told the Daily Telegraph. "But when I was asked if I would put on prison pyjamas I said I would love to."

She added, "This is such a great cause and it deserves local government representation. I had already raised my bail of $500!"

At the day-long community event, a visitor captured a man dancing with a policewoman at Martin Place on video. In the 10 days since the video was posted on YouTube, almost 1 million people have watched the policewoman bust a move.

Watch the good-natured officer join in on the fun below.

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Lord Simon Wolfson, CEO of British clothing and department-store company Next, helped turn around the struggling retailer over the last three years.

Not only is Next now doing well — share prices have nearly doubled — so is he. But instead of keeping his whopping £2.4 million bonus ($3.75 million CAD), he's donating the small fortune to his 19,400 employees.

Next employees who have been with the retailer since June 2010 or before will receive a one-off bonus of 1 per cent of their salary with their July pay. For the average clerk, the bonus would be about $300.

In an email to his staff, Wolfson wrote:

"Three years ago the Next PLC board awarded me an incentive scheme called a Share Matching Plan (SMP). The exceptional gain in our share price has meant that this award has now become more valuable than I could possibly have expected. As I am a shareholder, I have also greatly benefited from the increase in our share price."

He continued, "So this year, instead of accepting this reward, I

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One lucky puppy narrowly escaped ending up at a landfill.

Sanitation worker Victoria Roman was picking up garbage in Astoria, Queens, New York, when she saw that one of the trash bags was moving.

Inside the bag, Roman discovered a tiny purebred Shih Tzu with tangled, matted fur and overgrown nails. She could barely stand.

"She was in horrible, terrible condition," Roman told WABC, adding that had the pup not moved, she would have ended up in the back of the garbage truck.

Roman took the dog to BARC (Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition), an animal shelter in Williamsburg, where she made a remarkable recovery. Volunteers at the shelter named the dog Victoria, after the woman who saved her life.

"She's doing great, you know, considering what she's been through. She's a tiny little thing, has a lot of life in her, and not affected by what's happened to her, not emotionally affected by what happened to her, she still loves people in spite

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On Sunday, a half dozen members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) performed with 10 young musicians at an unlikely concert hall: the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago.

The young performers, all inmates, had just completed a week-long musical workshop at the detention centre and were performing original compositions written with the help of the professional musicians.

The workshops were a collaborative effort between CSO's Citizen Musician initiative and the London-based organization Music in Prisons, which specializes in musical programming for incarcerated youths and adults.

"This is a wonderful beginning for you and for us," the symphony's musical director, Riccardo Muti, 71, told the group at the conclusion of the 45-minute performance. "You will join society with the sense of harmony you learned here."

The participating youths prepared a performance "in the form of a quasi-symphony that charts four important phases of life: 'Early Days,' 'Turning

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Leonard and Mae Fine opened their Toronto-based knitting business, Marni Knits, on Dufferin Street more than 50 years ago.

Now in their 90s, the couple is finally retiring — because their son, who is also set to retire, urged them to.

Leonard and Mae met in New York in 1938. They found success in Toronto with their business, Marni Knits, that specialized in high-end knitted garments. CBC News reports that the couple's wares were sold at some of Canada's top retailers, including Holt Renfrew.

And while they've been together an impressive 75 years, Mae insists, "It's not long enough."

Now in their 90s, the Fines are closing up shop — but are still looking forward to a vibrant, active future.

"We had a life," Mae told CBC News. "We're still going to have a life, without the business. I may get a job, volunteering or something."

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Karel Nordstrom's husband, Tom, died last month. They had been married for 54 years.

The Armstrong, British Columbia, woman is now attempting to track down — and thank — the stranger who paid for their Birmingham, England, wedding reception in 1958.

Karel told The Province that the simple, selfless act profoundly impacted their marriage.

"It really was the start of how we thought and think in this family," she said.

The couple met at the University of British Columbia in 1956. They were engaged two years later.

When an engineering fellowship took Tom overseas, Karel followed him. Instead of waiting another year for Tom to return to Canada for a wedding in British Columbia, the couple decided to wed in Birmingham.

The broke couple planned a simple, frugal wedding. Karel even made her white velvet gown. They wed on December 4, 1958, at the registry office, then headed to the Royal Sutton Coldfield Hotel where they dined on B.C. trout with six guests.

When they tried to pay for their

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From the same brother duo who brought us "Justin Trudeau Style" comes "Believe It Or Not, It's JT," a fun parody of the '80s series The Greatest American Hero.

Watch Sam and Ben Barringer sing about their political hero — and newly appointed Liberal leader — below.

"Hey Justin Trudeau - 1981 called and 'Believe It or Not' they want their curly haired superhero back. But we think Sophie likes the outfit and you do wear it well. Good luck from Sam & Ben B," the brothers write.

Sam, an aspiring comedian, hopes the video will eventually find its way to Trudeau as their "Justin Trudeau Style" video did. When that video went viral last October, Trudeau gave a shout-out to the Hamilton, Ontario, brothers on Twitter:

Sam, you rock, Justin Trudeau Style! youtube.com/watch?v=aI5ypS… Sophie’s been teasing me about this all week: hilarious.

— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) October 26, 2012

"And while his mockery is mild enough to amuse rather than offend, the real takeaway is how great it

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Ryann Fradsham, 7, raised more money than anyone else in the country for this year's annual Shave for the Brave fundraiser for Young Adult Cancer Canada: more than $7,000.

This Saturday, the grade 1 student from Paradise, Newfoundland, had her head shaved in front of a crowd of supporters at the Avalon Mall in St. John's.

"We are so very proud of Ryann. She decided this year for her birthday instead of gifts she wanted to donations so that she could participate in Shave for the Brave. She just wanted to be able to help people and decided this was how she wanted to do it," Ryann's mother, Melissa Fradsham, wrote on Ryann's fundraising page.

"I'm very nervous — she doesn't seem to care," Melissa told CBC News before the event. "She says, 'Mom, it's only hair and I get to help people with cancer,' so we're just so proud — we're overwhelmed."

"She's just a good little girl, and she wanted to do this really badly, and she did it," Ryann's grandmother, Mona Fradsham, added.

Once Ryann's

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