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The Week's Best True Life Stories

The singing, tweeting Astronaut, and the Tunisian doctor fighting the Angel of Death

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Searching for My Dead Baby in a New York Mass Grave

Elaine Joseph searched for 35 years to find the burial place of her dead baby in New York

• 55 mins

The Singing Labourers of Dubai

Film-maker Mahmoud Kaabour on the lives of migrant workers seeking solace through singing

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Fighting 'Breast Ironing' in Cameroon

Cameroonian journalist's stand against breast 'ironing' to disguise the onset of puberty

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Standing up to India's Sex Abusers

Meet The Red Brigade, a female self-defence group confronting sexual violence in India

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Talent Contests, Polyglots and Pilots

The singing labourers of Dubai, plus the pilot who landed his plane on the Hudson river

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CAR: Sheltering 10,000 in my Church

Rev. Nicolas Guerekoyame-Gbangou has offered shelter to thousands at his church in Bangui

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From Cop to Whale Activist

Why detective Laurens de Groot gave up enforcing the law for a life hunting whale-hunters

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The 'Menstruation' Man

How inventor Arunachalam Muruganantham's cheap sanitary pad transformed lives

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Inside CAR's Only Children's Hospital

Dr Simplice Kango on caring for children with machete, bullet and shrapnel wounds

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Innovators, Peacemakers and Survivors

India's "menstrual man"; paralysed by my father; and inside the world's tallest slum

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British Mum - My Son Died in Syria

Fatima Khan on the death of her son Abbas, a British doctor, who died in prison in Syria

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Migrant Worker Wins Israeli X Factor

Filipina care worker Rose Fostanes talks about winning Israel's X Factor.

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Wrestler turned Human Rights Lawyer

The Guatemalan human rights lawyer who began his career travelling the world as a wrestler

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I Stopped School Gunman

The US school clerk who prevented a gunman from carrying out a massacre

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Heroes, Tunnels, Winners, and Cheese

The school clerk who stopped a massacre, life in NY tunnels and a story about cheese

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Filming in the 'Forbidden Zone'

The director who got people from rural villages in Afghanistan to film their own lives

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Bringing Up the Bodies in Bosnia

The Bosnian forensic anthropologist who's been excavating mass graves.

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Who Killed My Friend Daniel Pearl?

The journalist trying to track down the killers of reporter Daniel Pearl

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Child Poverty in the US

Child poverty in the US told through the eyes of 13-year-old Jonny who lives in a shelter

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Poverty USA and Supersized Snakes

Life without in the land of plenty; and working with the world's most venomous snakes

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Saudi Woman Activist's Beard Row

Souad Al Shammary triggered a controversy with tweets against equating beards with piety

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Armistead Maupin: Writing the City

Tales of the City author on writing his best-selling novels set in San Francisco

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Kiev Protester: "I Was Tortured"

Dmytro Bulatov says he was kidnapped, tortured, and forced to confess to being a US spy

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Paula Kahumbu: Hands Off Our Elephants

Kenyan conservationist Paula Kahumbu on her lifelong fight for African wildlife

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Protestors, Politicians and Scribes

Tortured Kiev Protester, Finland's first black MP and writer Armistead Maupin

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"I Had My Legs Stretched By 14 Inches"

Born with dwarfism, Tiffanie DiDonato underwent an operation to increase her height

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Iraqi Interpreter in the Line of Fire

The Iraqi interpreter for the US Navy SEALs who became a target himself.

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Finding my Daughter After 29 Years

El Salvador's civil war separated mother and daughter Josefina and Xiomara

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Ukraine's Tiny 'Troublemaker'

The Ukrainian activist who risks her life to investigate stories of government corruption.

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