BBC World Service - Outlook

How My Mum Betrayed Me

As a girl Hannah Milbrandt thought she had terminal cancer but all was not what it seemed

Through novels Laura Freeman was able to eat again after a decade of battling anorexia

People who've been given hours or months to live - and the astonishing ways they reacted

Claudette Colvin, the unsung hero of the US civil rights movement

Chamseddine Marzoug has made it his personal mission to bury migrants who drowned at sea

Paul Canoville was racially abused by fans but he paved the way for future black players

Erricka Bridgeford called a Baltimore ceasefire but could it go 72 hours without killing?

A singing spaceman, a refugee who wants to beat gravity and a cosmonaut stuck in orbit

Bisi Alimi was a successful actor, but after his revelation he had to flee for his life

Denise Fergus on how she struggled to cope after the murder of her young son James Bulger