Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle

Tran To Nga is fighting to get compensation for victims of the toxic herbicide

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The former boxer who helped avert a plane hijack

On a flight in 2018 Tarik Sahibeddine found himself at the centre of a drama in the sky

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The Holocaust survivor who became my ‘adopted grandfather’

When journalist Chitra Ramaswamy met 99-year-old Henry Wuga, they fell in platonic love

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Patricia Cornwell: Writing the hero I needed as a child

As a child she faced cruelty, as an adult her crime-busting creation transformed her life

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'We sweat together': Risking it all to help North Korean defectors

Pastor Kim Seongeun has crossed icy rivers and dense jungle to rescue over 1,000 people

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The man who finds water in the desert

Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground

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'The goalkeeper's terror'

Uruguayan Claudina Vidal became the first woman ever to join a professional men's team

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A Chilean couple’s enduring love and a nation’s memory

A life spent exposing the truth of dictatorship and dementia

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How a Greek grandmother’s cooking helped us heal

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Hiding in plain sight: My family's secret

Rafael Agustin's 'all-American' life fell apart when he discovered he was undocumented

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Why cutting my dreadlocks set me free

Feeling trapped in a strict Rastafari household, poetry helps Safiya Sinclair escape

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A life made beautiful by rubbish

Robi Walters finds solace in making art, after a childhood isolated by trauma

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The Hollywood screenwriter born in a cult

Guinevere Turner spent her childhood in a cult as strange as any film

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Harry Potter and the dynamic shadow – his stuntman

Gymnast David Holmes got his dream job when he became Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double

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The beatboxing cellist making music out of family history

How US cellist Gary Washington turned a painful history of slavery into a symphony

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A crime reporter and her own stalking story

Journalist Isla Traquair was stalked by her neighbour in the idyllic English countryside

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The pop rebel who rediscovered her voice

Vashti Bunyan had given up music for good – 30 years later she became an underground hit

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Thorgy Thor: A pioneering drag queen and her violin

Thorgy Thor has spent her career trying to bring together drag and classical music

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I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

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The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist

Juan Villalba-Macías has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers

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A Family Affair: My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

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A Family Affair: Sly and Cynthia, funk royalty

Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk legends Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson

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A Family Affair: A buried photo collection brought our town together

Javier Mazzuca took on the task of developing his dad's mammoth archive of negatives

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A Family Affair: Remembering my dancing parents, Fosse and Verdon

Nicole Fosse’s life wasn't always as smooth as her parents’ celebrated choreography

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A Family Affair: Dad was a best-selling sex writer

Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

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A Family Affair: My uncanny resemblance to Jackie Wilson

One night singer Bobby Brooks was told news that explained the talent he took for granted

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A Family Affair: Spiders, Gandalf – a brother's bucket list

Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

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A Family Affair: Scars and silences

Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand her family history after Brazil’s military coup.

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A Family Affair: A hand-me-down recipe made me a cookery star

Elizabeth Chong popularised Chinese food in Australia with her father's family recipes

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My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride

Wes Hurley’s story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation

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Love in the time of revolution, part 1

The guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

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Love in the time of revolution, part 2

The guerilla lovers who endured separation and torture to rule their country

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Stories from a hospice: The people I carry with me

Kathryn Mannix was a pioneer in palliative care, then she became a ground-breaking author

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Unmasking my best friend

Reality TV producer Johnathan Walton found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

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Seven months trapped in an airport

Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

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Drums like a heartbeat: The boy who took Afro-Uruguayan music to the world

Singer Rubén Rada started performing in carnival groups when he was just 10 years old

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Searching for the last man in the forest

Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

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Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook

Some old family letters led historian Karina Urbach to try and right an historic wrong

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Betting the family farm on rockstar dreams

The Emerson brothers’ family funded their musical aspirations – they almost lost it all

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The spies in my house

Ulrike Poppe was one of the most surveilled women in East Berlin

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Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1

Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics

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Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2

Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics

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The teenager who befriended a superstar DJ

Fergie was taken under Tony De Vit's wing and was soon playing the UK’s biggest clubs

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The mother and son whistleblowers who exposed a billion-euro fraud

Pav Gill helped expose a scandal at Wirecard, with a little nudge from his mum

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The voyage of Meg and Elena

The couple met online then had to battle the human and natural worlds to be together

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The secret life of Eva B: Pakistan’s first woman of hip-hop

Eva B learned to rap as a teenager in Karachi, doing it undercover from her bedroom

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Vampires in Lollywood: The 40-year hunt for the desi Dracula

Zinda Laash was Pakistan’s first ever horror film – but then it just disappeared

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My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 1

Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance

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My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 2

How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry

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Mateo the memory keeper

How one man stopped the stories and songs of his people from being lost forever

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Why I came out as trans to the world on America's Got Talent

Comedian Julia Scotti outed herself as a trans woman in front of an audience of millions

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My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

Maria Pilkington's grandmother walked 1400km through Australia to get home, aged 14

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Fugees Family: The football team who became my life

The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger

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The ultimate birdwatcher: Facing swamps, snakes and sceptics

For 50 years Bobby Harrison has canoed the Arkansas swamps in search of an elusive bird

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Trapped in an icy hell: My 72-day mountain escape

After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out

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Why I twist my hair into sculptures

How Ivorian artist Laetitia Ky found power in her hair styles

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The reluctant cop who sculpted away his sorrow

A child of the civil rights era, Kevin became a policeman but longed to be an artist

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Unrepeated: Damo Suzuki's improvisations in music and life

The legendary Japanese vocalist passed away earlier this week.

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The teenager who survived the Manchester bombing

Freya Lewis has rebuilt her life after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017.

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"He counted 3, 2, 1 – then stabbed me in the heart"

Kieran Quinlan was on his way to a party when a man with a knife attacked him.

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Surviving a serial killer

How Kathy Kleiner Rubin lived and thrived after a horrific attack by Ted Bundy in 1978

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Beirut in stained glass: Rebuilding a broken city

Stained-glass artist Maya Husseini is restoring her life’s work after the 2020 explosion

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My microscopic world: Making the tiniest sculptures on earth

British artist Willard Wigan has a gift for constructing the world in miniature

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Frank Sinatra’s Australian showdown

When Ol’ Blue Eyes made Australia see red

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Finding calm in the chaos of Miss World 1996

Rani Jeyaraj found herself caught in the middle of violent protests against the pageant

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Your Song: What song has shaped your life?

Is there one song that tells a story from your life? Outlook wants to know about it

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Muppets, marionettes and magic: My life with puppets

How Basil Twist brought Studio Ghibli’s Totoro and his puppet creations to life

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My Pacific odyssey and the son I left behind

Ruth Shaw spent years sailing boats and on islands, trying to outrun her past

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Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo

Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge

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Murder she solved: Karachi’s pioneering police surgeon

Summaiya Syed on facing misogyny and shaking up forensic investigation across Pakistan

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Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument

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Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2

How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star

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Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud, part 1

Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off

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Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud, part 2

Fresh-faced graduate Erika Cheung’s whistleblowing put Theranos’ founder in jail

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Coming last and still getting the biggest cheers

Now aged 40, Felipe Nystrom competes in gruelling races, never expecting to win

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The Playboy Bunny civil-rights activist who became Mrs Bond

Gloria Hendry quit civil rights to be a Playboy Bunny — and the first black Mrs Bond

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Discovering my film-making grandfather, Emeric Pressburger

Age 13, Andrew MacDonald discovered his grandfather was an Oscar-winning film-maker

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Searching for belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District

After a breakdown Esther Rutter found new hope in the home of an old English poet

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Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison

Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean

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The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water

Robert Bilott took on a case for one farmer and began a fight for thousands of people

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Facing a Grand Slam champion and my own parents in court

When Olivia Jasriel took her childhood abuser to court, her parents testified against her

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A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together

Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted

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How to get over it: A tale of passion, pain and Nobel Prizes

Bruno Lemaitre made the discovery of his life – but someone else got the Nobel Prize

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Escaping Idi Amin’s war in a stolen plane

Ebrahim Kisoro and his colleagues commandeered a plane to fly to safety

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How to talk to guerillas

Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them

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Sound dreams: The making of a world-class composer

Errollyn Wallen was told she was nothing special, but her music proved them wrong

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Digital love: Why I 'married' a cartoon popstar

At his lowest ebb Akihiko Kondo found sanctuary with an AI popstar, but faced a backlash

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From suburbia to stardom: I created Ziggy Stardust's hair

The chance encounter that led Suzi Ronson to style David Bowie's iconic look

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Outlook Mixtape: Peace, love and iconic hair

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Helping the children of incarcerated parents get to college

Yasmine Arrington has set up a scholarship fund for the children of incarcerated parents

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A mother’s quest to uncover why her neighbours kept dying

Sofía Gatica was set on finding out the cause of sickness in her area, no matter the cost

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The surfer who found the world’s biggest wave

Garrett McNamara made history when he surfed a 78-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal

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The yellow house and the doctor who experimented on me

Evy Mages learns the truth about her time in an Austrian ‘child-observation station'

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Outlook Mixtape: Big waves, blue birds and a band of mothers

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The boy with red hair: 26 years searching for my stolen son

Sara Méndez’s desperate hunt for her baby boy, vanished during Uruguay’s military regime

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We turned our experience of neurodiversity into a manga

When Eri Nanato was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, she and her husband turned to manga

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'Girls don't play guitars!' The Liverbirds' story

How four teenagers from Liverpool became the UK's first all-female rock'n'roll band

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The plant-hunter who risked death for an orchid

On a mission to find a new type of orchid for his granny, Tom Hart Dyke was kidnapped

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Outlook Mixtape: Rare orchids, manga love and Liverbirds

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