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Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano
Francois was homeless when he learned to play a train station piano from scratch

Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family
Maggie Robin raised a bear cub who grew into an extraordinary companion

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2
Accused of spying in rebel-held Syria, Loubna Mrie faces peril and a shattering loss

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1
Loubna Mrie secretly filmed Syria’s uprising, despite her family’s loyalty to the regime

The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot
An ordinary couple caught up in the country's biggest meth case for doing a good deed

I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life
When Rob Smethurst was gripped by addiction, building a football club helped him get out

Colm TóibÃn: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice
He’s now a best-selling author who brought the glitz of Hollywood to his small-town home

The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated
When singer Willis Chimano was outed, the exposure threatened to derail his entire life

Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy
Krystal Evans survived a house fire at 14. To make sense of it, she turned to stand-up

Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was
Joanne Briggs thought her dad was a scientific superhero. But he was hiding a dark secret