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

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The Last Vet in Sierra Leone

click Sierra Leone's last vet tells us about his work to vaccinate the street dogs of Freetown...

The street dogs of Freetown

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Two views from Haiti

click A jounalist-doctor and the owner of the grand Oloffson Hotel share what they have experienced...

medical treatment of children in Haiti

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Saving the scarlet macaw

click At a zoo in Belize, keepers are trying to educate people about the endangered parrot...

macaws

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Company of Wolves

click Animal behaviour expert Shaun Ellis spent 18 months living with a pack of wolves in the Rocky Mountains of America...

Shaun Ellis with wolves

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Afshin Ghaffarian

click Dancing in and out of trouble with Iranian authorities...

Afshin Ghaffarian, Iranian dancer

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Justice for Ruchika

click The police chief, the rising tennis star and her best friend - the Indian scandal that refuses to go away...

Aradhana Prakash with Ruchika's photo

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Fat-busting Kid

click Dawson MacKay, 11 year old anti-obesity campaigner tells us about his own battle with the bulge...

Dawson MacKay, 11 year old anti-obesity campaigner

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Community Platform

click How villagers in the northern Indian state of Haryana built their own railway station...

India, a community builds its own railway station

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On the Trail of the Killer Crocodile

click We meet the man who is hunting down Gustave, Burundi's killer crocodile...

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Children of Gaza

click The man who has been helping children left traumatised by the Israeli attack on Gaza 13 months ago...

Children in Gaza

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Melinda Gates

click Probably best known as the wife of the world's richest man, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates co-chairs a powerful foundation with big aims...

Bill and Melinda Gates

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Allegations and denials

click The man taking the UK government to court hoping to establish their involvement in his ordeal...

Omar Deghayes

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Surviving Niagara Falls

click Fifty years ago, Roger and Deanne Woodward had an extraordinary experience...

Roger Woodward and sister Deanne

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  • Moving to MarsOne of the Burmese families living now in Sheffield

    Two Burmese Karen families who moved from a Thai refugee camp to England

  • Disaster in FocusA private security guard stands outside a burning store in downtown Port-au-Prince. January 19, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

    Award winning photographer Carlos Barria on capturing Haiti after the quake

  • Kumi NaidooKumi Naidoo. Photo: © Greenpeace / Marco Okhuizen

    South African Kumi Naidoo, the new Executive Director of Greenpeace, on the human cost of being a political activist

  • Kano - More Than One WayKano

    An inspirational, award-winning British rapper on his journey to success from the playground to the recording studio

  • Outlook: the best of 2009Outlook: the best of 2009

    A round up of just some of the most memorable personal stories broadcast on Outlook across the last 12 months

  • Mumbai's Hero NannySandra Samuel and Moshe

    The Indian nanny who saved two year old Moshe Holzberg after both his parents died in the terror attacks on Mumbai in 2008

  • The Whale ManThe Whale Man, Duncan Murrell

    The photographer who captures stunning photographs of humpback whales while paddling a canoe...

  • Murder at SeaLindy and Malcolm Robertson, and their yacht Mr Bean

    The yachting dream turned nightmare - the British grandmother who escaped after pirates killed her husband.

  • China's Growing Sands Photo: Sean Gallagher

    The people struggling to survive as their land and livelihoods are swallowed up by desert

  • Farming Today, USAFarming in the USA

    A year in the life of the Hager family who run a dairy farm in the USA…

  • War and peaceJo Berry and Patrick Magee

    Exploring stories of hope in the face of conflict

  • From Prison to Poetry

    Donato Francisco Mattera - the one time gang leader who turned to poetry and activism to become a celebrated South African figure

  • Still DancingDavid Drew gets into costume

    71 year old ballet dancer David Drew describes a life dancing for five decades with Britain's Royal Ballet

  • Sorcery and SaudiA Saudi policeman keeps watch over Muslim pilgrims near Mecca

    The story of a Lebanese pilgrim facing a death sentence in Saudi Arabia after being charged with witchcraft

  • Recovering from GenocideAn outdoor 'gacaca' court in Rwanda

    Life in a Rwandan community - where killers live with survivors and are tried in open-air courts

  • Surviving the TsunamiPhotojournalist Arko Datta's iconic image

    The photojournalist who made an emotional journey to track down the Indian tsunami survivor he photographed five years ago

  • Radio GibbonChanee Brulee & gibbon. Credit: Nick Lyon

    Chanee Brulee, the DJ on Radio Gibbon who's devoted his life to matchmaking gibbons

  • Cycling the AmericasMark Beaumont in Peru

    The man who's cycling 15000 miles from farthest North to deepest South America - and climbing mountains on the way

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