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17/11/2010
One woman's fight to try to stop young Somalis from turning to piracy.
18/11/2010
Aron Ralston, the young American climber who cut his own arm off to save his life
19/11/2010
A campaigner on the risks of being openly gay in Indonesia
23/11/2010
Former Canadian first lady Margaret Trudeau talks about surviving mental illness.
22/11/2010
Pakistan's leading human rights activist on death threats,marriage and stand-up comedy
24/11/2010
The Turkish journalist inspired by her friend's murder to tell difficult stories.
25/11/2010
Bloggers from Azerbaijan on satire, friendship and a donkey outfit that got them jailed
26/11/2010
The Indonesian domestic worker fighting back against abuse from rich families abroad
30/11/2010
Alex Fattal on a surprise call from his brother, one of the hikers imprisoned in Iran
29/11/2010
Egypt's former First Lady talks about her husband and the horror of his assassination.
01/12/2010
The Afghan plastic surgeon on treating women who deliberately burn themselves
03/12/2010
The captain of the Afghan women's football team on her passion for the game
02/12/2010
The Soviet geneticist who tried to end famine but starved to death in prison
06/12/2010
A British anthropologist on a year in the life of the Inughuit people of Greenland
07/12/2010
How a popular Greenland band uses music to encourage teenagers not to take their lives
09/12/2010
Helping to rehabilitate trained child suicide bombers in Pakistan.
08/12/2010
The muslim woman whose son died helping others during the 9/11 attacks on America.
10/12/2010
Andre Hanscombe on bringing up his son - who witnessed the murder of his mother
Pulitzer prize winning photographer Greg Marinovich - his life on South Africa's frontline
13/12/2010
Australian Daryl Floyd on his thirty five year search for his missing brother
15/12/2010
Harry Kiernan talks about helping his wife to die and being an altruistic organ donor.
17/12/2010
The man who lost his memory only to rediscover, years later, a terrible family secret
20/12/2010
An ex-Israeli soldier called a traitor by his family for speaking out against the army
21/12/2010
A gay marine on the campaign to change the law on sexuality in the US military
24/12/2010
Aqeela Sherrills on breaking away from gang violence in LA to preach reconciliation
22/12/2010
Australia's top paramedic on being at every major disaster in his country and beyond
23/12/2010
Harvard's first woman president on why her mother never thought she'd get the job
28/12/2010
Three people tell us about their homeland Kazakhstan, from mountain to steppe and gulag
27/12/2010
Looking for Hans: the boy who survived the Haiti earthquake but lost 3 of his sisters
29/12/2010
Matthew's memorable moments of 2010
30/12/2010
Some of the people who have inspired and moved Matthew this year.