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The selfie that changed my life twice

How a selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel revolutionised a Syrian refugee鈥檚 life

• 15 mins

I came out during a lie detector test

Former military man Todd Ross was interrogated and harassed during Canada鈥檚 鈥楲GBT purge鈥�

• 23 mins

James Rhodes: I'm alive because of music

The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline

• 40 mins

Pollen detective: Forensics鈥� secret weapon

Patricia Wiltshire uses her deep knowledge of plants to help police solve serious crime

• 26 mins

The sad tale of the laughing cab driver

When Moustafa Chamseddine ended up in a Syrian jail, laughter became his only comfort

• 20 mins

The ingredients for a happier life

Why Olivia Potts quit her career in criminal law and became a pastry chef

• 16 mins

Why would beggars steal my little brother?

Samuel Abdulraheem was playing outside his home in Nigeria when he was snatched

• 23 mins

Yacht race disaster: alone in a vicious sea

Nick Ward was the last man to be rescued in ocean racing's biggest disaster

• 23 mins

My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride

A story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation

• 26 mins

Secret SMS texts saved my family from IS

The Yazidi man who had to resort to smugglers and his smartphone to rescue his family

• 19 mins

Exposing Nigeria鈥檚 cough syrup crisis, for my brother

Why Ruona Meyer joined the frontline in the war against codeine cough syrup addiction

• 29 mins

The secret missionary who lost her faith

Amber Scorah was a Jehovah's Witness in China when she started to doubt her beliefs

• 23 mins

The Blind Boys of Alabama: a life in music

From gospel to the Grammys 鈥� the life and times of America鈥檚 octogenarian boyband

• 20 mins

Our wedding made LGBT history in Costa Rica

How a clerical error led to the first legal gay marriage in Costa Rica

• 16 mins

Bassem Youssef: Egypt鈥檚 revolutionary comedian

From heart surgeon to Arab Spring satirist 鈥� the rise and fall of Bassem Youssef

• 35 mins

My baby was swapped at birth

A South African family continues their search after a hospital mix-up 21 years ago

• 14 mins

鈥楶lease... need rescue鈥� SOS!鈥�

When Beatrice De Smet got a desperate SMS from her husband, she knew she had to act fast

• 21 mins

The male countertenor who replaced a leading lady

Polish singer Jakub Jozef Orlinski is something of a rarity in the operatic world

• 17 mins

An unlikely friendship in Guantanamo Bay

How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie

• 47 mins

Building a hospital on a rubbish dump

Aged 82, Edna Adan Ismail works 14 hour days in a Somaliland hospital she fought to build

• 13 mins

Forgiving myself after killing a classmate

Lis Cashin accidentally killed a friend with a javelin and spent years overcoming guilt

• 23 mins

Why I thanked the man who shot me

Wesley Hamilton says that getting shot was 鈥渢he best thing that ever happened to me鈥�

• 23 mins

How Springsteen became my lifeline

The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss

• 32 mins

Spain's fearless barnacle-hunting sisters

Isabel and Susana Gonz谩lez risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain's coastline

• 26 mins

'If you want to live, squeeze my hand'

How scientist Steffanie Strathdee saved her husband from a deadly superbug

• 21 mins

Keeping my country's burned past alive

How Brazilians are coping with the loss of the National Museum and their history

• 21 mins

From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum

Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera

• 22 mins

The love story behind a lost Leonardo

How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000

• 23 mins

The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

• 26 mins

How not to be a rock star

Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash

• 18 mins