Polish social worker who saved around 2.500 Jewish children from the Nazis

A TV film shows heavy-handed treatment of British Muslims by the authorities but an elderly Englishwoman courageously intervenes to challenge the louts and comfort the victim.

The Isreali pianist and conductor that has taken Palestinian citizanship

A new documentary film looks beyond the Isreali-Palestinian conflict to capture a story of life and surfing in the Middle East

Heroine of the struggle against apartheid celebrates 90th birthday

An unlikely peacemaker's long journey from army commando to prime ministerial hopeful

Having lived in Lebanon 29 years, I too found tears of laughter running down my face

My job is to tell the kids who are younger than me that violence is a dead end

Who would have guessed that the man responsible for the latest craze amongst Muslim youngsters would be an Orthodox Jewish grandfather from Manchester?

For years, few Japanese knew the incredible story of how the man known as "Japan's Schindler" saved about 6,000 Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War

"The other thing I admire about him is that his cheesecakes are fantasic!"

This week, a 97-year old Polish woman was finally honoured for saving thousands of Jewish children from extermination in Nazi death camps. Claire Soares tells her extraordinary tale