Serving others is definitely one of the 'things to do before you die', writes life coach Deborah Trenchard. 'It fills you with inexhaustible joy

'Here it’s not rape because you have desire for a woman, it’s rape because you want to destroy that person through her private parts. There’s no appropriate expression for it, because if it were men shot by a gun we would call it genocide. But it’s another type of genocide.’

So says Dr Denis Mukwege — also known as the Angel of Bukavu — a Congolese gynaecologist specializing in the reconstructive surgery of Congolese women gang-raped or sexually brutalized. 

How do former enemies — or simply victim and perpetrator — reconcile after acts of extreme violence? It's an extremely difficult path but not impossible, as Jo Berry and Patrick Magee show

Last night, twenty-five years and a day after the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in an attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other members of the British government, the man who planted that bomb and the daughter of one of those he killed shared a platform in the UK Parliament. 

The full transcript of the meeting — jointly hosted by The Forgiveness Project and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues — will be published shortly.  But earlier in the day they gave an extended joint interview to the BBC World Service. Listen by clicking 'Read More'.

In a bid to read human DNA  easily, quickly and cheaply, scientists are pioneering a technique of drilling nano-sized holes, 100,000 times narrower than a human hair, in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them. It could lead to a revolutionary new era of 'personalised' medical treatment.

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‘I'm very famous as a dangerous person in Khandahar,' Malalai Kakar once said about her role as police chief and head of the department for crimes against women.

On his way home from work a father suddenly remembers it's his daughter's birthday. He stops at a toy shop and asks,  'How much are those Barbies over there?'