BBC World Service - Outlook

Burmese Punk Band Helping the Homeless

Every Monday a group of Punks from Burma set out to help Yangon's less fortunate

Allan Haber is now a successful criminal lawyer but he once was a prolific drug dealer.

In Australia's Northern Territory Mick Pitman is known simply as Crocodile Mick

Alien worlds: From a cosmonaut stuck in space to a diver 250m below the Earth's surface

Don Shirley was 250 metres underwater cave diving when his equipment failed

Ramtin Ghazavi was overheard singing by an Italian tourist, who helped launch his career

Pardeep Kaleka's father was shot dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012

Afghanistan's only cosmonaut was returning from space in 1988 when his engines failed.

Road to recovery; a homeless addict saved by books and a disastrous start to a friendship

How Philani Dladla sold books on the streets of Johannesburg and taught kids how to read