New life for the Egyptian woman cut off from the world for ten years. Read more
now playing
13/10/2011
New life for the Egyptian woman cut off from the world for ten years.
17/10/2011
The Egyptian woman whose fiancé was killed during last week's violent clashes in Cairo.
18/10/2011
The refugee from Haiti who became the first black Governor General of Canada.
19/10/2011
Afghan poet Masood Khalili reflects on the al-Qaeda attack that nearly killed him.
20/10/2011
The first French woman fined for wearing the niqab explains why she's fighting the law.
24/10/2011
Libya's 'revolutionary doctor' on why he risked his life to treat rebel fighters
25/10/2011
Raffaele Sollecito's father on never losing faith while his son was in jail for murder.
27/10/2011
The biologist leading the fight against malaria and the world's champion slackliner
26/10/2011
The Chechen woman who at the age of 14 kept a diary of the country's war with Russia.
31/10/2011
Face to face with an Eta gunman: the son of a murdered father offers forgiveness.
01/11/2011
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
02/11/2011
Robert King on spending 29 years in solitary confinement
03/11/2011
Inside a Syrian hospital: a doctor's account of violent abuse by security services
07/11/2011
The widow of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko on her husband's murder
08/11/2011
An eyewitness account of a notorious massacre in a Libyan jail
09/11/2011
A father's shock at realising his son was responsible for a high school killing spree.
10/11/2011
First baby at 57 - the pleasure and pain of being an older mother.
14/11/2011
The legendary musician and producer Nile Rodgers.
15/11/2011
The Afghan girl given away in a debt of honour, then abused for a decade.
16/11/2011
The mother of a Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow prison calls for a full investigation.
17/11/2011
The UN's fight against torture - and living in fear on Sesame Street
21/11/2011
The hurricane that inspired a novel - one American woman's terrifying ordeal.
22/11/2011
A Colombian journalist forced into exile after receiving death threats.
23/11/2011
The divided loyalties of one protester in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
24/11/2011
The Canadian Inuit still suffering from a dark episode in her people's history.
28/11/11
The Jewish teacher who taught a blind autistic Palestinian girl to be a concert pianist.
29/11/2011
The bride from Bangladesh who asked for a divorce just minutes after her wedding.
30/11/2011
The British kidnap victim who returned to Cambodia to meet his Khmer Rouge captor.
01/12/2011
Two lives forever changed by the massacre that took place 20 years ago in East Timor.
05/12/2011
The astronaut who's just spent 18 months in a capsule on a simulated mission to Mars.
06/12/2011
The British teenager who has the body of a 105 year old woman.