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Kill or be killed: A climber’s dilemma, part 1
Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped

The Hiroshima survivor who's still shouting for peace
Setsuko Thurlow knows what nuclear war looks like

Lost in lion country and saved by Spam
Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape

Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge

How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument

Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off

My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape

How to talk to guerillas
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them