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    Seven months trapped in an airport

    Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

  2. From songbird to birdsong expert

    Former opera singer Gisela Kaplan on how she became an expert in bird communication

  3. Escape from our "metal coffin" on the ocean floor

    42 metres down on the seabed with 22 sailors inside: the story of the submarine Pacocha

  4. A decade without Dan: The search for my brother gave me purpose

    The loss of Loren O’ Keeffe’s brother led her to help families with missing loved ones

  5. From intensive care to the Olympic podium

    How fencer Keeth Smart won an Olympic medal months after being diagnosed with leukaemia

  6. Birdwatching with the men who kidnapped me

    Diego Calderón was taken hostage in Colombia on a biology field trip

  7. Banned from voting for my wife, so we changed the law

    Desmond and Sheena Meade’s historic battle to give ex-felons the right to vote in Florida

  8. Trapped in a "metal coffin" on the ocean floor

    42 metres down on the seabed with 22 sailors inside: the story of the submarine Pacocha

  9. A plane crash left me lost in the Amazon

    Brazilian pilot Antônio Sena survived 36 days alone after crashing into dense rainforest

  10. Stories from Syria's secret library

    Under siege: how a group of friends risked everything to create a literary sanctuary

  11. Rugby star Gareth Thomas: Strong, vulnerable and HIV+

    Rugby legend Gareth Thomas was blackmailed and lived in fear before revealing he was HIV+

  12. My unknown song became a political anthem in Hong Kong

    A phone alert revealed Matthew Keegan had become an overnight pop star 5,000 miles away

  13. I ran with the men, and changed history

    Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon

  14. The siege and the cat that saved my life

    Amra Sabic El-Rayess turned 16 as Bosnia Herzegovnia plunged into civil war

  15. Making friends with the man who stole my paintings

    Artist Barbora Kysilkova formed an unlikely friendship after the theft of her paintings

  16. Life as the UK's first black TV reporter

    Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald looks back on his life and career

  17. Discovering my sister's inner world

    A story of sisterly love, migration and art

  18. Fire, ice and thunder: A chase on the high seas

    Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship

  19. My life collecting the folk songs of Iraq

    How vocalist Sa'di al-Hadithi is preserving Iraqi folk music for posterity

  20. I survived Chechnya's 'gay purge'

    Amin Dzhabrailov escaped his homeland after being kidnapped and tortured

  21. My mother, India’s forgotten disco diva

    Rupa Biswas Sen’s long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years

  22. Hunting 'The Serpent': The diplomat turned detective

    An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

  23. Frank Sinatra's Australian showdown

    When Ol’ Blue Eyes made Australia see red

  24. A top Iranian chess umpire and her impossible decision

    Shohreh Bayat was one of Asia’s top chess umpires until she was faced with an ultimatum

  25. We bought the wrong house at auction

    Cal and Claire tried to buy a flat, but ended up with a wrecked manor in rural Scotland

  26. The quiet Louisiana grandma who became an environmental warrior

    Sharon Lavigne campaigned to stop a plastics factory being built in her riverside parish

  27. Andy Cole: Goals, glory and the battle for his life

    Manchester United star Andy Cole went from top scorer to transplant survivor

  28. The spies in my house

    Confronting the Stasi agent who watched me for fifteen years

  29. ‘Aids Angel’ – I gave love in a time of prejudice and fear

    Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of HIV+ gay men abandoned by their families

  30. The doctor treating children 8000 miles away

    Afghan refugee Meena Said is saving the lives of children in her homeland

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