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Afghan MP Shukria Barakzai was the target of a suicide bombing last year. Yet she was recently a member of the all female delegation that had a historic meeting with members of the Taliban in Norway.

Tony Steele is 78 years old and has spent his life delighting audiences with his daring stunts on the flying trapeze. Following surgery for a blood clot on the brain, he is back in the air with 52 stitches in his head.

British poet Christopher Reid lost his wife Lucinda to cancer 10 years ago. His loss inspired him to write an anthology of poems called A Scattering. The book became a best seller and won a major literary award - something he thinks his wife would have been very proud of.

Twenty-one-year-old Kenyan Caren Odanga has just been given a young leaders award by Queen Elizabeth in London. Caren's campaign for girls' rights in Kenya was inspired by her own experience of domestic violence and having to struggle to go to school.

(Photo: Afghan MP Shukria Barakzai. Credit: Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)