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Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 2
Jari Hannu Bouillon was a baby when he went from a Finnish orphanage to a French castle

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 1
Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from around the world – Jari was one of them

The mountain between us
How two climbers became connected after a fateful expedition on a mountain in Tibet

I found the Titanic during a top-secret Cold War mission
For 70 years people searched for the wreck of the Titanic. Then came Robert Ballard

The improbable rise of Europe’s 'Tofu King'
How German vegetarian Bernard Drosihn took on the ‘meat police’ and won

I changed my name to change my life
Hakeem Oluseyi beat drug addiction and dropped his old name to become a star scientist

Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list
Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

I saw a smile on the suicide bomber's face
In 2006 a suicide truck bomb left Iraqi teenager Qusay Hussein severely injured and blind

The criminal double life of a stage actor
Jack Charles is a venerated Aboriginal Australian actor, but he once had an addiction.

The Omani football nerd who went from player to pundit
How Rumaitha Al Busaidi became the first female football commentator in the Arab world