Trained to Kill: How Four Boy Soldiers Survived Boko Haram
A moving and troubling piece recounting the experience of four boys abducted by a religious militia in Nigeria and forced to join their army. http://www.bit.ly//nyt-boko
The Perfect Man
Billy Mitchell is really, really good at Pac-Man – his high score is 3,333,360 – a perfect game. The unusual way his mind works is gently unpicked in this profile.
How Drowning Happens
A woman called Merav tells the author the story of how she narrowly escaped from drowning after an impromptu swim at an Australian beach in 1970.
The Third Person
A story looking at the professionals hired by wives in China to deal with their husbands’ mistresses.
Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu
The dizzying, multi-layered story of a huge pearl that has been at the centre of elaborate hoaxes, claims and counter-claims, and havoc in the lives of those connected to it for over 80 years. http://bit.ly/atlantic-pearl
Lost At Sea
The story of a couple who were on an American commercial ship sunk by a German U-Boat early in the war.
Peter Popoff, the Born-Again Scoundrel
A look at the empire of a successfully returned 1980s televangelist, who gives supporters his “miracle spring water”.
How one man died so a whale might live
The story of Joe Howlett, a disentangler who worked helping whales in distress. It is also a story about the killing of whales, and their conservation.
The Second Soviet In Space
The story of Gherman Titov, the “bad boy cosmonaut turned elder statesman of space”.
The Last Unknown Man
The remarkable story of a man found naked outside a Burger King in Georgia in 2004. His identity was a total mystery, including to himself. Those that sought to help him could not escape a niggling suspicion that he knew more than he was revealing.