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Nujeen Mustafa in her wheelchair

03/10/2016 GMT

Fleeing Syria in a Wheelchair

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Nujeen Mustafa escaped war in Syria in a wheelchair pushed by her sister

Nujeen Mustafa was born with cerebral palsy in Aleppo, Syria, and had to flee to Europe in her wheelchair to escape the war.

Nujeen Mustafa was born with cerebral palsy, and for most of the first 16 years of her life had barely left her home in the Syrian city of Aleppo. When the war made life there too dangerous, Nujeen had to make the perilous journey to Europe in her wheelchair.

Yu Jianchun is a migrant worker who lives in in Hangzhou, China. Despite only having a high school education, he has stunned the maths world with his imaginative solution to a complex maths problem.

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American writer Adam Haslett was only 14 when his father killed himself. Over 30 years later Adam has written about the experience in his new novel Imagine Me Gone.

(Photo: Nujeen Mustafa in her wheelchair)

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