Man Uses Google Earth to Find the Family He Lost

This might be the most amazing story you read all week.

This might be the most amazing story you read all week:

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.
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