Why I set out to record the songs of Ireland’s birds

Sean Ronayne set out to record the song of every one of Ireland’s native birds

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My robots for children, inspired by my life as a refugee

For teenage Paolo Prijanian an opportunity to get his own computer changed his life

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The siege and the city that shaped Hisham Matar

How the Libyan embassy shooting in London would profoundly affect novelist Hisham Matar

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Becoming a catfish to catch a catfish

Andrew Lloyd realised someone had collected his images to create a fake online identity

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Outlook Mixtape: In pursuit of beauty

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

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Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’

A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart

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The desert architect who brought back a river

Aziza Chaouni thought Fez had nothing to offer until a polluted river called her back

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War was my comfort zone, until I had to walk away

Chris Booth dodged bullets and bombs, but came home with mental health concerns.

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How Hollywood got behind my Afghan resistance film

Sahra Mani documented women resisting the Taliban, with help from a film star, and Malala

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Outlook Mixtape: A lost cello and a mother and child reunion

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

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The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery

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The film couple turning their own lives into romantic comedy

Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi's real-life love story inspired their film A Nice Indian Boy

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Voice notes of the past - what my dad's singing revealed

An old cassette, a yearning for a lost parent, and a treasure trove of migrant history

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From security guard at the Met, to artist at the Met

A chance encounter led Armia Malak Khalil to exhibiting at New York’s famous art museum

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The children of the Holocaust, 80 years on

A child’s eye view of life in concentration camps and in exile, from four survivors

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The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing

Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared

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The boy who brought anime to life in Pakistan

A childhood love for Japanese cartoons led Usman Riaz to build his own animation studio

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The NYPD cop who gave children a break from the Troubles

Denis Mulcahy gave 23,000 children from Northern Ireland a holiday away from the conflict

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A stroke of insight: A doctor who learnt as her brain failed

When her brain began to shut down, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor thought, “Wow! This is so cool!”

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Outlook Mixtape: The museum of memories and dreams

A global tour of the museums and galleries holding stories that bring the world to life

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For the love of smell

Scientist Luca Turin found romance and a biological mystery via his obsession with scent

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The reinvention of a pioneering reggae artist

Lorna Gee was one of the first female MCs in London's reggae music and sound system scene

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The childhood injury that turned me from singing to surgery

Prema Dhanraj’s experience of severe burns led her to become a plastic surgeon

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The making of a Nollywood special effects superstar

How Hakeem Onilogbo transformed Nigeria’s special FX industry – and his family’s fortunes

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Outlook Mixtape: First loves and first dates

Four remarkable stories of unusual first dates and unexpected romance

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Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

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I created Africa's largest ever photo library

Photojournalist Paul Ninson founded the Dikan Centre to reclaim African history

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'Kids of the Colony': YouTubers exploring their homelands

British best friends explore their families' homelands in Bangladesh, Morocco and Somalia

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A secret music video shot in Iran: My punk family adventure

Nadia Tehran recorded a forbidden music video on the streets of Iran with their dad

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Outlook Mixtape: The smelly edition

From the million dollar nose to the science behind how we smell scents

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