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02/06/2011
'Locked in syndrome': totally aware yet unable to move a muscle after a stroke
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07/06/2011
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08/06/2011
Torment of a mentally ill man chained to medieval stocks in Bali for nine years
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The cosmonaut campaigning for reconciliation in Kyrgyzstan
13/06/2011
Why Pakistani gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai now fears for her life
14/06/2011
The white Zimbabwean farmer who took President Mugabe to court
15/06/2011
A New York hotel chambermaid on the demands of her job
16/06/2011
Growing up in poverty in the UK - a brother and sister's story
20/06/2011
The peace campaigner who stripped off her clothes in protest at Liberia's bloody civil war
22/06/2011
A young Mexican using hip hop to help gangsters build new lives for themselves
21/06/2011
The Saudi surgeon fighting for the right to marry the man she loves
23/06/2011
The Sicilian who uses his TV station to name and shame the Mafia
27/06/2011
The man whose life was transformed by legendary musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron
28/06/2011
An Iraqi woman activist describes how protests are violently disrupted
29/06/2011
Love and lies - the CIA secret agents who met and fell in love on a spying mission
30/06/2011
The Indonesian mother whose baby was put up for sale because she couldn't pay the midwife
04/07/2011
Former child soldier turned rapper on how he feels about the birth of South Sudan
05/07/2011
The true story of the American man who became known as the Horse Whisperer
06/07/2011
A former child soldier returns to South Sudan as a lawyer to help build a new nation
07/07/2011
The woman who collected the bodies of American soldiers in Iraq
11/07/2011
Taken by Colombian rebels aged 11 and trained to kill - a woman's escape from terror
12/07/2011
Held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly a year - an Indian seaman tells his story
13/07/2011
The political editor of the now defunct British paper the News of the World
14/07/2011
Building a road to the outside world - life in one of Pakistan's most remote villages
18/07/2011
A war reporter describes how the horrors of the battlefield changed her family life
19/07/2011
The Pakistani barber who reunites missing children and their parents
20/07/2011
Scared to go home: the 70 year old widow who fled post election violence in Ivory Coast
An aid worker on his work in Dadaab refugee camp where hundreds of Somalis arrive daily
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25/07/2011
Ramy Essam, the Egyptian singer-songwriter who became the iconic voice of Tahrir Square