BBC World Service - Outlook

Outlook Weekend: My Two Lives

My Two Lives: secretary to chief, murderer to prison officer and tyre-burner to dancer

Alice Achan gave an education to girls kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda

Lonnie Johnson made millions from inventing a toy water gun, the Super Soaker.

The Indian adoptee who has returned home to reform the country's foster care system.

The Brazilian police officer turned prison inmate, who became a reforming prison warden.

What's in a name? What it means to be a "Patel" in the USA or the son of Pablo Escobar

Mohna Ansari is the first woman Muslim lawyer in Nepal

Iman Elman is in the Somali National Army fighting against the Islamist group al-Shabab

Jenna Cook was abandoned as a baby and returned to China to look for her birth family.

The Syrian illustrator creating images of hope for children traumatised by the conflict