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| | | |  | | | | | | "The feeling you get when you have a shock like that is like a burning sensation all over your body," writes Tom Crosby, who received a 25,000-volt electric shock while trespassing on a railway line. "The tracksuit bottoms I had on had burnt to my legs, my jacket had disintegrated and my t-shirt was full of burn holes. I've been left with nerve damage and visible scars from skin grafts that I'll have for life. If I was to tell my 14-year-old self something - I'd say the rail tracks aren't a playground, why play on a railway?"
'The electric shock that transformed my life' | | |
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| | | |  | | | | | | Remember last year's story about the Indian sanitary pad revolutionary? Amy Peake read about the simple machines that could produce cheap sanitary pads and decided she should take them into refugee camps. "It was one of those scary moments where that purpose that you have been looking for all your life is staring you right in the face," she says. Eighteen months later she is getting somewhere, and perhaps many more lives will be changed.
The unlikely sanitary pad missionary | | |
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| | | |  | | | | | | This is a story about the power of a whistleblower. In this case, the anonymous informant forced the sacking of Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy (pictured). The mystery source witnessed dashcam footage from a car which showed a police officer shooting teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times, killing him. The city agreed to pay the family a $5m (£3.3m) structured settlement, which included an agreement not to release their copy of the footage. That did not stop journalists from securing its release.
How a whistleblower brought down Chicago police chief | | |
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