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

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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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

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

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Did a lightning strike make me a trombonist?

After being struck by lightning in 2005, Laura was consumed by a hunger to play music

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Cristina Rivera Garza: ‘Grief becomes a forced silencing’

The Mexican author whose younger sister Liliana was murdered at the age of 20 in 1990

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Finding freedom in the water: Gaza’s swimming teacher

Amjed Tantesh’s enduring mission to teach Gazan children to swim

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The singer with her back to the audience

How Indian jazz vocalist Asha Puthli challenged musical stereotypes

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Outlook Mixtape: Lightning; a sister found; swimming dreams

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

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The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us

Robin Hardy’s obsessive quest to make this iconic horror movie would devastate his family

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Fighting my family to fight for others

Rebel child turned rebel lawyer, Moniza Kakar is challenging authority wherever she goes

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'Becoming' Elton John saved my life

Elton John tribute act Tom Cridland says his hero helped him overcome alcohol addiction

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