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From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum

Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera

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The love story behind a lost Leonardo

How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000

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The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

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How not to be a rock star

Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash

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Dr Palipana, the quadriplegic ER medic

How a car accident turned Dinesh Palipana into a quadriplegic emergency doctor

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I raised 1,000 children but gave my own away

Sindhutai Sapkal is known as the 鈥榤other of orphans鈥�, but had to give her own child away

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The acid attack meant for someone else

Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity

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Discovering my 鈥榤um鈥� stole me at birth

In 1997 a baby is stolen from a Cape Town hospital, 17 years later she learns the truth

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How I fixed my own brain

Sarah Vallance put her life back together after suffering traumatic brain injury.

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The TV action hero fighting bullies

Why German action star Carsten Stahl became an anti-bullying crusader

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Modern birth: Why I gave my sister my womb

Lolita W盲sterlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers

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Modern birth: The fertility doctor who impregnated his patients

Matthew White and Heather Woock found out they were siblings and uncovered a scandal

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Modern birth: The man who had a baby

Freddy McConnell is a transgender man who decided to have a baby

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Saved by the daughter I ran away from

How Matjames Metson was reunited with the daughter he had abandoned 16 years before

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I defaced a picture of Assad and knew I had to flee

Reading Virginia Woolf inspired a Syrian woman to lead protests against the president

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My ex-partner killed our baby

Hera McLeod has used her grief and anger to become an advocate for child protection

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Derren Brown: The magician鈥檚 secrets

Illusionist Derren Brown听on how he used magic to overcome his social awkwardness

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The false confessions of a serial killer

Thomas Quick was Sweden鈥檚 most notorious serial killer. Then he retracted his confessions

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Scammed by my friend, the fake heiress

Rachel DeLoache Williams was conned out of tens of thousands of dollars by Anna Sorokin

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Learning to sing by copying divas on DVDs

Rising star Vuvu Mpofu discovered opera as a teenager at her home in South Africa

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Exposing the scandal that's cost me my life

Vicky Phelan on the medical scandal that gave 221 women inaccurate smear test results

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London bus driver fighting crime with music

Justin Finlayson turned his bus into a music studio to keep youths out of trouble

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Why I didn鈥檛 make a sound for 12 years

Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause

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The accident that taught me how to die

After being electrocuted by 11,000 volts, Dr BJ Miller now devotes his life to the dying

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Pirates stole my son

Howie Truong was separated from his baby son Kai as they fled Vietnam by boat

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Curing my own deadly disease

David Fajgenbaum was nicknamed 'the beast' before he became ill with a deadly disease

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Mental Health Day: Dancing and delusions

Dancer Kevin Turner and his mum Avis tell us how they coped with his bipolar disorder

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How Superman saved my life

Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood

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The Afghan physio who survived a landmine

Shukrullah Zeerak wanted to help others after he lost his leg in a landmine explosion

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How we pulled off 'the rescue of the century'

Vernon Unsworth oversaw the huge operation to save 12 Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave.

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