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Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street
Kubra Khademi’s protest against sexual violence brought an Afghan street to a standstill

Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home
A promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours

The penguin that followed a teacher home
Tom Michell on the lessons he learned from his adopted rescue bird

Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony
Judith Obina helped bring peace to Uganda with a secret weapon: Joseph Kony’s mother

The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98
Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery

The man who woke up in the future
When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased

The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains
Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her

José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic
The surprising life story of the ex-President of Uruguay who died this month

The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here
Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men took his father away

The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi
Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann