I realised how far a small act of kindness could go

Watching the beautiful young woman glide down the aisle in New York, Sally Becker couldn’t help but reflect on the day she first met the bride, Selma Handzar. It was 1993 in east Mostar in the midst o

Reins in hands, three young sisters ride the coils of an enormous blue snake. Waving a rattle and smiling happily, the fourth, a baby, is held around her plump middle by its tail. Passers-by dive out

IRIS walked slowly to the front door of her Victorian villa in Fairley, a sleepy Sussex village. It had begun, she fumed silently – the “invasion” of her home. Of course, she’d been expecting it. Her

When Chris and Marianne Fisher left their five-bedroom home in Telford in January 2020, they thought they were heading off on a 20-month world tour. They never imagined they’d be returning four and a

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I WAS lonely. Papa was a preacher and we lived and travelled in a painted wooden wagon, pulled by Jessie, a large and docile shire horse. We had few possessions; there was no room for what Papa called