05/12/2011

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.

Today, astronaut Diego Urbina describes what it was like being locked inside a space capsule in Russia for almost 18 months as part of a simulated trip to Mars.

Also, the Indonesian Muslim who was sent a letter bomb because of his campaign against extremism.

And British woman, Rona Cant, who suddenly took up adventuring in middle age - she started by sailing the wrong way around the world. Rona's book is called Snow, Sleds and Silence: The Story of the Nordkapp Expedition and is published by Libri.

(Image: Diego Urbina. Credit: AFP/Getty)