BBC World Service - Outlook

Homeless Refugee to Chess Champion

The young Bangladeshi refugee who won France's national chess championships

Canoeing the Grand Canyon - blind; World's largest labyrinth; Saving India's leopards

Blind Erik Weihenmayer and Lonnie Bedwell paddled 277 miles of rapids on the Grand Canyon

In a poor suburb in Kampala, two men are making hit low-budget action films

Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish is fighting to end the conflict that killed his three daughters.

Shahana Hashmi fought for the right to select an embryo to save her son

Female cabbie from Afghanistan; rescuing a lion cub; swimming the length of Britain

Afghanistan's pioneering woman taxi driver Sara Bahayi is teaching other women to drive

Amy Jackson is from the UK, but has become one of Bollywood's hottest stars

Vian Dakhil, Iraq's first female Yazidi MP speaks out against ISIS