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Never ever give up: how Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida
American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad's thirty-year dream to swim from Cuba to Florida

The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle
Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible.

Buddhist chants and Ibiza trance: A Spanish boy’s odyssey
Osel Hita Torres was a baby when he was recognised as a reincarnated spiritual leader

The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 2
Salva Dut returns to Sudan to find his dad and decides to get clean water to his village

The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 1
As a survivor of Sudan's civil war, Salva Dut's will to keep going has taken him far

Britain’s infected blood scandal, my quest for the truth
When he was four, Jason Evans’ dad died after contracting HIV from contaminated blood

The family hiding in the bush after leaking Russian secrets
Nick Stride said too much about his former boss, one of Putin’s closest allies

'It's much easier for them to create a spy than catch a spy'
Anoosheh Ashoori was imprisoned in Iran, having been falsely accused of espionage

Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty
When Helen Prejean wrote to a death row inmate, she had no idea what was coming

My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 2
How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry