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Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey
Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days

The unmaking of a child soldier
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her
In a desolate concentration camp, Odette Hallowes discovers a tiny symbol of hope

How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune
Reggie Nelson knocked on the poshest doors in London and asked a million-dollar question

The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared

My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love
When her partner died, Ellidy Pullin chose an unconventional path to motherhood

Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart

Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage
Ryan Calais Cameron’s stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre

The long climb back
It started as a magical day for two friends but then a rock came loose

The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company
Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety