A woman made the choice to save the life of her rapist. Why? Susan Copestick, 56, manages to remain calm while reliving the moment in November last year when she effectively chose to save the life of Peter Drummond. Her former partner had held her at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her earlier that day. "There was a split second when I was watching for Peter to stop breathing, waiting for him to die. Then I stopped myself and thought 'no'.

I'm attracted to children but unwilling to act on it. Before judging me harshly, would you be willing to listen?

For the past 11 years, a man has been living without knowing who he really is. According to WJXT, the man was found beaten and left for dead outside of a Burger King in 2004 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had no memory of who he was. Doctors said he had retrograde amnesia. He called himself Benjamin Kyle, BK, for short. He appeared on both local and national television shows to see if anyone might recognize him.

Equal parts insightful and depressing.

MUNICH — A stout Bavarian music teacher brought homemade blueberry crumble because she thought “the refugees must be hungry.” A young German mother coaxed smiles out of terrified children with balloons.

A few years ago, the writer Joy Williams’s favorite church needed to dispose of a few extra pews after a renovation. Williams attends the church only in April and October, when her frequent cross-country drives take her to Laramie, Wyo., but she wanted a pew anyway. She borrowed a trailer, got a friend to help her load the pew and drove a thousand miles, pulling it behind her enormous Bronco, her two German shepherds...

In June, Juan Romero did something he hadn't done in decades. He celebrated his birthday, going out to dinner with his family in San Jose. "I always dreaded when June was coming up," said Romero, 65, who has struggled for most of his adult life to let go of his crippling memory of an American tragedy.

It's the dream of many a startup founder: Make something people love and wind up wildly rich, selling the company for billions. But after you do that, what comes next? It could be a sense of hopeless isolation. So says Minecraft founder Markus Persson (aka "Notch") in a strangely revealing series of tweets. Microsoft bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion almost a year ago, and the founder did not join Microsoft after the sale.

A family epic spanning the GRACIE JIU-JITSU dynasty’s generations of combat and betrayal, from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.

Clayton Anderson, "the ordinary spaceman," talks his long journey to the ISS, the view from 250 miles above the Earth, and the extraordinary things on the horizon for space travel. After so many years of trying to get into the astronaut program, what was it like when you finally got up on the shuttle and experienced the micro-gravity for the first time? Clayton Anderson: I don't know honestly if I thought back to the 15 tries to apply. I think that my 15 attempts...

She had taken care of her husband for the last eight years of his life, through his blindness, through cancer and heart failure. After he died in 2002, she sold the Long Island house they’d loved and shared, finding it too filled with memories, and moved to their country home in upstate New York.

The closest land mass to Tristan da Cunha is more than 2,000km away - Chris Carnegy was on the island when a medical emergency brought home how remote the community is.

Profound writing about how losing your sense of smell can fundamentally change the way you relate to other people.

Hazem Sedda is probably the most popular man in Redfern.

It’s been almost a month on the road now. One of the goals of Connected States was to see what lessons could be gleaned from a mobile lifestyle and then applied to a life more stationary. Well, 25 days isn’t so long in the grand scheme of things, especially if I’m staring down the barrel of another 340 or so, but it’s been long enough to make an observation or two.

Four years ago, she introduced the world to the most hated (and maddeningly unforgettable) song in a generation, was passed over by the music industry, and turned into a punchline — all before she was old enough for a learner’s permit. Now 18, Rebecca Black is too famous to be normal and too normal to be famous. So what does she have to smile about?

There are times when Dan Price feels as if he stumbled into the middle of the street with a flag and found himself at the head of a parade. Three months ago, Mr. Price, 31, announced he was setting a new minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle credit card processing firm, Gravity Payments, and slashing his own million-dollar pay package to do it. He wasn’t thinking about the current political clamor over low wages or the growing gap between rich and poor, he said.

Titus O'Neil is a large man. He also appears to be a kind man.

As the Thunder, a trawler considered the world’s most notorious fish poacher, began sliding under the sea a couple of hundred miles south of Nigeria, three men scrambled aboard to gather evidence of its crimes. In bumpy footage from their helmet cameras, they can be seen grabbing everything they can over the next 37 minutes — the captain’s logbooks, a laptop computer, charts and a slippery 200-pound fish.