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

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

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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

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

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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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