From growing up in a toxic Soviet town to to a grizzly bear with a fondness for wine.
Why I love my toxic town
The unlikely partnership between a beatbox musician and a professor who studies lemurs
Angelica Lim programmes robots to be 'human' but was this one her servant or child?
How a Scottish couple came to live with an 8ft tall, half-tonne grizzly named Hercules
Luca Parmitano was on a space walk when water started leaking into his helmet
Deng Adut was raised in war torn Sudan but has now rebuilt his life in Australia.
The art of Chinese wordplay
In June 1985 the ban on inter-racial marriage in South Africa was finally lifted.
How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups
Birdwatcher Vernon Head on his hunt for the world's rarest bird, the Nechisar Nightjar