Xing Hong is a nurse at Shanghai General Hospital. She is the only candidate from Shanghai to be nominated for this year's ...

She eventually became president of the American Red Cross and served in that role from ... She has won seven Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals and continues to compete.

Both the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart came ... Civilians who worked with the military, like Red Cross workers or war reporters, remained eligible for the award until 1997.

Medals awarded to a bomb disposal hero dubbed 'the man who saved Charing Cross' after he bravely disarmed a parachute mine using just a hammer and chisel during the Blitz could fetch £140,000 at ...