Liz Ward-Sneatlum gripped her husband’s hand as she lay on a Seattle hospital bed, hours removed from a second grueling surgery in less than two weeks.
Constrained by a neck brace, the 44-year-old could only look up at the fluorescent lights on the ceiling. Her eyes wandered until she heard the deep, soothing voice of her [...]

Jericho is a dusty, isolated town in the Palestinian West Bank, home to 20,000 people.
Among them, 20 year old Adallah Jinzawi and his family. This week Abdallah found himself at the centre of an internet chat room storm that has put his name on the front pages.
After days of phone calls and careful persuasion he [...]

COURTNEY is yanking her big sister Zara’s ponytail because she won’t share her crisps, their brother Ieuan is bawling and parents Tim and Gina Williams can barely be heard above the din in the living room.
But until last week the house was silent, save for Gina’s occasional fits of weeping, as the family lived through [...]

Peter Conquer was born in Cardigan in 1950. But at 18 months of age he was adopted and moved to Frimley. During National Adoption Week in November 2006, Peter recounted how he was separated from his family in the early 1950s and how he was reunited with them more than 50 years later:
Written by Peter [...]

Greg Rankin may seem like just another young surfer, as he enters the warm waters of Jaco Beach, on the Pacific and easy side of Costa Rica.
But, from birth, the wayfaring Canadian was unusual - riding the first wave of a powerful revolution which is now a force of 3 million people.
But don’t tell him [...]