Amazing

Nawaal Akram is Qatar's first disabled model and female stand-up comedian

Vicky Forster beat leukaemia as a child. She now works as a cancer scientist

Bashir Aziz used to hide his vitiligo but now he shows his skin to the world

The first openly transgender African-American to be elected to public office in the US

Wilmot Collins has been elected mayor of Helena, the state capital of Montana in the USA

Japanese diver Hiroyuki Arakawa and Yoriko the fish have known each other for 30 years

Victoria Barrett is suing the US federal government over climate change.

The first woman to compete at the same level as men in the professional game.

Revisiting the post-war children's republic of Gaudiopolis

Terry Waite on how his confinement enriched his mind and how he still applies the lessons

India's first complete transgender couple are hoping to marry

Heidar Logi is one of a small group of surfers who braves the freezing waters of Iceland

Lori Gertz and George Ghossn wrote to each other from childhood, but only met in their 50s

Tom Otto and Shaun Sears have rescued thousands of cats stuck in huge trees

Shantelle Thompson is a two time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion

Paula Miranda was training to be a sports teacher, when a car crash left her tetraplegic

Sherry Johnson was married to her rapist in the US state of Florida

Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir is on a mission to save the Icelandic goat

Chilean Rebeca Aravena is a very unusual student. She went back to school...after 66 years

The agoraphobic photographer who uses screenshots from Google Street View to make art.

Australian backpacker Rusty Young was in San Pedro prison for more than three months

Juan Martin on family life with the revolutionary leader

Meet the Ivorian man who learned ballet using online videos

Zannah Mustapha founded a school that teaches orphans of Boko Haram.