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    How not to be a rock star

    Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash

  2. The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

    Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

  3. The love story behind a lost Leonardo

    How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000

  4. From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum

    Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera

  5. How I lost a museum but gained a family

    Stories of hope in the ashes of Brazil's destroyed National Museum

  6. 'If you want to live, squeeze my hand'

    How scientist Steffanie Strathdee saved her husband from a deadly superbug

  7. Spain’s fearless barnacle-hunting sisters

    Isabel and Susana González risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain’s coastline

  8. How Springsteen became my lifeline

    The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss

  9. Why I thanked the man who shot me

    Wesley Hamilton says that getting shot was “the best thing that ever happened to me”

  10. Forgiving myself after killing a classmate

    Lis Cashin accidentally killed a friend with a javelin and spent years overcoming guilt

  11. Building a hospital on a rubbish dump

    Aged 82, Edna Adan Ismail works 14 hour days in a Somaliland hospital she fought to build

  12. An unlikely friendship in Guantanamo Bay

    How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie

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  14. ‘Please... need rescue… SOS!’

    When Beatrice De Smet got a desperate SMS from her husband, she knew she had to act fast

  15. My baby was swapped at birth

    A South African family continues their search after a hospital mix-up 21 years ago

  16. Bassem Youssef: Egypt’s revolutionary comedian

    From heart surgeon to Arab Spring satirist – the rise and fall of Bassem Youssef

  17. Me, Guantanamo Bay, and a new friend

    Mohamedou Salahi was in Guantanamo Bay prison for 14 years but bonded with his guard

  18. The Blind Boys of Alabama: a life in music

    From gospel to the Grammys – the life and times of America’s octogenarian boyband

  19. The secret missionary who lost her faith

    Amber Scorah was a Jehovah's Witness in China when she started to doubt her beliefs

  20. Exposing Nigeria’s cough syrup crisis, for my brother

    Why Ruona Meyer joined the frontline in the war against codeine cough syrup

  21. Secret SMS texts saved my family from IS

    The Yazidi man who had to resort to smugglers and his smartphone to rescue his family

  22. My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride

    A story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation

  23. Yacht race disaster: alone in a vicious sea

    Nick Ward was the last man to be rescued in ocean racing's biggest disaster

  24. Why would beggars steal my little brother?

    Samuel Abdulraheem was playing outside his home in Nigeria when he was snatched

  25. The ingredients for a happier life

    Why Olivia Potts quit her career in criminal law and became a pastry chef

  26. The sad tale of the laughing cab driver

    When Moustafa Chamseddine ended up in a Syrian jail, laughter became his only comfort

  27. Pollen detective: Forensics’ secret weapon

    Patricia Wiltshire uses her deep knowledge of plants to help police solve serious crime

  28. James Rhodes: I'm alive because of music

    The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline

  29. I came out during a lie detector test

    Former military man Todd Ross was interrogated and harassed during Canada’s ‘LGBT purge’

  30. The selfie that changed my life twice

    How a selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel revolutionised a Syrian refugee’s life

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