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Strangers to coworkers to friends to sisters?
Cassandra and Julia were uncannily alike. A chance gift revealed a past neither expected

Why I love counselling cult survivors
Dr Gillie Jenkinson counsels people who’ve just left cults, as she once did too

Outlook Mixtape: On your bike
Cycling to find love, redemption and a university education

The fighter pilot who saved 148 lives
Fighter pilot Tammie Jo Shults calmy landed a passenger plane saving 148 people on board

The street kid who built a boxing academy
Tobias Mupfuti learned boxing while homeless – now he trains young fighters in Zimbabwe

Speaking Scots helped me find my voice – and millions listen
Award-winning Scottish poet Len Pennie began writing to improve her mental health

Scarpetta: Creating the hero I needed as a child
The painful past behind writer Patricia Cornwell’s crime‑fighting icon

Outlook Mixtape: Friday the 13th
Tales of misfortune and horror to mark Friday the 13th

A riot in a shopping cart: the race that inspired an artist
Murray Siple was drawn to speed and risk-takers. An injury opened his eyes to a new world

Vampires in Lollywood: The 40-year hunt for the desi Dracula
Zinda Laash was Pakistan’s first ever horror film – but then it just disappeared