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Last updated: 14 october, 2009 - 12:33 GMT

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'89 Squares

click In 1989 people gathered in public squares all across Eastern Europe to join in peaceful protest and bring about change...

Budapest Democracy rally, March 1989

Budapest Democracy rally, March 1989

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Annie Lennox: Peace Award

click As Nobel Peace Laureates present the singer with a Peace Award, Annie Lennox talks about her work raising AIDS awareness...

Annie Lennox

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Fire Alarm

click Return of Black Saturday: as Australians recover from devastating bush fires, temperatures are steadily rising...

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Return to 'Nam

click The Vietnamese refugee who left on a fishing boat but returned on a battleship - as an American Navy Commander...

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A Cultural Reawakening

click Pakistan's Swat Valley: cultural life re-emerges after the Taleban, violence and fear...

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Pirate Attack!

click Attacked by modern day pirates - the ship's captain who fought grenades and AK 47s with old-fashioned traps and tricks...

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Queen Of Mantas

click The marine biologist who sold all her possessions to go swimming with giant manta rays...

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Climate for Change

click From Capitol Hill to Copenhagen: Al Gore's journey to centre stage as climate change crusader...

Al Gore

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A Space Odyssey

click Space, the final frontier: Jose Hernandez and his journey from Mexican crop picker to the furthest reaches of space...

Photo: NASA

Photo: NASA

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Kids Under Arrest

click The Palestinian youngsters claiming wrongful arrest and abuse at the hands of Israeli authorities...

Stone throwing brings risk of arrest, but some children say they were wrongfully locked up and mistreated by authorities

Stone throwing brings risk of arrest, but some children say they were wrongfully locked up and mistreated by authorities

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Blood at Devil’s Curve

click The indigenous leader from Peru injured in a deadly clash between police and land rights protesters...

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Dead Man Talking

click The innocent man freed from death row after seven execution dates...

John Thompson: a new lease of life - freed from death row, helping others. Photo: Jenny Bagert

John Thompson: a new lease of life - freed from death row, helping others. Photo: Jenny Bagert

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Patient Zero - The World's First Swine Flu Patient

click The four year old boy from a Mexican village who was the first to have the virus...

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Brave Face, Real Beauty

click The amazing courage of the model and TV presenter who suffered an horrific acid attack...

Brave Face: Katie Piper - courage after a brutal acid attack

Brave Face: Katie Piper - courage after a brutal acid attack

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Secrets of The Deep

click The man who devoted his life to dolphins and risked it to expose a secret dolphin slaughter...

The Cove

The dolphin slaughter in the cove in Taiji, Japan

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Staring Death In The Eye

click Twenty five years on, surviving the scars of Ethiopia’s 1984 famine…

Survivor: as a child Biadglign Befekadu was found suckling his dead mother as a vulture picked at their bodies. He still bears the scars to this day.Survivor: as a child Biadglign Befekadu was found suckling his dead mother as a vulture picked at their bodies. He still bears the scars to this day.

Survivor: as a child Biadglign Befekadu was found suckling his dead mother as a vulture picked at their bodies. He still bears the scars to this day.

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Where's Jonas?

click The Filippino mother in search of her 'disappeared' activist son…

The Filippino mother in search of her 'disappeared' activist son…

Where's Jonas? The search for the Filippino activist Jonas Burgos

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  • Perfect landing: the pilot who safely landed in New York's River Hudson

  • One man's search for the remains of his family killed in Srebrenica


  • Rising sea levels: island problems in the Maldives & Papua New Guinea

  • A survivor of a Thames boating disaster describes the pain of losing his friends...

  • The retired teacher turned aviation archaeologist leading the hunt to find America's lost WASP.

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