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Riyad Aljoboury is a primary school teacher from Iraq. Riyad spent most of his life under the rule of Saddam Hussein, he knew very little about the outside world and spoke no English. When American forces entered Iraq in 2003 they were the first westerners Riyad had ever met and they had a profound impact of his life.

David Teie is a classically trained cellist and music researcher based at the University of Maryland. He's spent most of his career trying to appeal to the ears of humans, but recently he's been composing music for animals. He started with monkeys but it was his album "Music for Cats", that reached the top of the music charts and received the most attention. David told Outlook how his fascination with music's effects on felines began.

In Peru, at least 300,000 people -- the vast majority of them women -- are estimated to have been forcibly sterilised in the 1990s. It was part of a controversial birth control programme launched under the presidency of Alberto Fujimori. To this day, many women continue to suffer emotional and physical pain from the operations, which often had complications, and only ONE person has ever received compensation for what happened. Now, through a new online project, many of these women are getting their voices heard... Outlook's Jane Chambers reports from Lima.

(Picture courtesy of Riyad Aljoboury)