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11/07/2011
Taken by Colombian rebels aged 11 and trained to kill - a woman's escape from terror
12/07/2011
Held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly a year - an Indian seaman tells his story
13/07/2011
The political editor of the now defunct British paper the News of the World
14/07/2011
Building a road to the outside world - life in one of Pakistan's most remote villages
18/07/2011
A war reporter describes how the horrors of the battlefield changed her family life
19/07/2011
The Pakistani barber who reunites missing children and their parents
20/07/2011
Scared to go home: the 70 year old widow who fled post election violence in Ivory Coast
An aid worker on his work in Dadaab refugee camp where hundreds of Somalis arrive daily
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
25/07/2011
Ramy Essam, the Egyptian singer-songwriter who became the iconic voice of Tahrir Square
26/07/2011
Fighting to save the man who tried to kill me - the extraordinary Rais Bhuiyan
27/07/2011
The parents of a British woman murdered in Japan speak out after the killer is sentenced
28/07/2011
The unemployed Pakistani man who was kidnapped by the Taliban as he tried to find work
01/08/2011
The woman imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin jail when she was just 16
02/08/2011
A mother's 20 year campaign to find her murdered son's body
03/08/2011
The tent village springing up on the streets of Tel Aviv as house prices soar
04/08/2011
The same sex couple who became one of the first to tie the knot in New York
08/08/2011
The psychiatrist treating mental health problems caused by the siege in Misrata
09/08/2011
The African migrant who survived a boat journey on which 63 others died
10/08/2011
The Armenian village deserted by its menfolk in their search for work
11/08/2011
The Afghan interpreter whose dream is to join the British army
15/08/2011
The Taiwanese prison chief on the impact of overseeing executions
16/08/2011
An escape from death at the hands of Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik
17/08/2011
Ayat al Ghormezi, the poet who became a symbol of the protests in Bahrain
18/08/2011
Hackney's heroine - the grandmother who stood up to looters during the London riots
22/08/2011
The daughter of Kandahar's assassinated mayor grieves for her father.
23/08/2011
Why a Chilean student protester has turned her school into her home
24/08/2011
An Iraqi family destroyed by bombs and bullets and the man trying to hold it together.
25/08/2011
The Iraqi man who lived on the world's most dangerous road.
29/08/2011
Nigel Brennan, held hostage in Somalia and his sister who helped secure his release.
31/08/2011
The Afghan campaigner who ran secret girls' schools under the Taliban.