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Meet the social media stars who are increasingly suffering from mental health problems.

Selling sex is said to be the oldest profession in the world. But now a new take on prostitution is causing controversy. Brothels full of sex dolls are opening all over Europe.

She was trying to to help raise awareness of the 30-second test.

Grandparents Tina and Winston Reid have been moving around Mersea Island, in Essex.

Christine Welch has been writing and singing in Mandarin Chinese for years.

The parents of Keira, and Max - the boy who received her heart - tell the story behind the organ donation legislation named after them.

Asked what part of her life she'd enjoyed most, Kane Tanaka, 116, said: "This right now."

For thousands of years, people in Myanmar have been using thanaka to protect and care for their skin. But this ancient beauty habit is changing as the country opens up and modern make-up has become more available.

Safiyyah Syeed says since starting boxing she's found a new outlet which makes her happy.

Big families are not unusual in the Ukrainian village of Glynne. While the country’s population is falling, this highly religious community has more than 100 families with seven or more children. But one couple has gone further than most, recently welcoming their 19th child.

Kayti was just 11 years old when her dad sold her for sex for the first time in a US town. After years of abuse, she shares what she lived through and how she finally escaped.

Tyne-Lexy Clarson says she would "never" promote cosmetic procedures to her followers.

Sean was 10 when he found a gun at home and it went off, killing his younger sister, Erin, and changing his life forever.

It's night-time at Ola During Children's Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where most nights see children die of malaria complications.

There are a growing number of mixed gender Saudi Arabian running groups.

Cllr Rakhia Ismail, from Islington in London, is the UK's first Somali-born female mayor and is thought to be the first mayor to wear a hijab.

The 75th anniversary of D-Day is being marked across Europe. At least 20,000 French people were killed in the battle of Normandy. On D-Day itself, as many as 4,400 allied troops died. About the same number of French civilians were also killed.

Journalists in France helped bring a US veteran back together with his wartime sweetheart.

Viktoria Modesta chose to have her own leg amputated.

He says it is in his nature to help people after stopping his cement mixer to help a woman cross the road.

Zack Pinsent is a young tailor who dresses like a Regency gentleman, every day.

Feuzi Zabaat was working nearby when he caught the girl as she fell out of a window.

All the focus was on the Moon, the mission and the men – but what about the families back on Earth? The BBC asked Sue and Amy Bean, the wife and daughter, respectively, of astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man on the Moon.

The son and granddaughter of the first ever man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, talk about his legacy, their memories of him, and about the astronaut's concerns for 'fragile' planet Earth. The Apollo 11 mission made the first ever moon landing in July 1969.

Forget staged family photos, UK-based photographer Ian Weldon focuses on all the behind-the-scene moments at weddings. He has a new book coming out that will feature these non-traditional photos as well as an exhibit in Bristol.

Jazz artist Bumi Thomas thought she was a British citizen.

After Kirsty reported her ex to the police, the journey to a verdict took almost a year.

Vicky Hall played nurses and other roles in programmes including Casualty, Holby City and Doctors before deciding on a career change, training to become a medic off screen.

A dramatic footbridge connecting two halves of Tintagel Castle on the north coast of Cornwall - the legendary birth place of King Arthur - has been built.

Could we save the planet if we all moved to the forest and ate only what we found there? This is how one family tackles climate change.

Among the millions of channels on YouTube is 'Dr Becky', an astrophysicist who is trying to encourage others into STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). As a research fellow at the University of Oxford, Dr Becky Smethurst specialises in black holes, but outside the day job she posts videos on all sorts of space-themed questions. Her aim is to be someone in the world of scientific research that people can have a connection with.

Around the world the price of wool has been falling, and some British farmers say it’s been difficult to make a profit. So why do so many stay in the business? Jamie, Andrew and Angus Murray farm sheep on 2000 hectares at Sewingshields Farm in Northumberland. They show us the work involved on a typical day at shearing time, and discuss how the industry has changed over the years. Filmed, Edited and Produced by Rachel Price

During Indonesia's summer months, in villages like Klepu in East Java province, the only source of clean water is in a 10m (33ft) deep cave.

Sailors Shannon Lenz and Tom Whitehead recall their encounter with a huge sea of floating pumice in the Pacific Ocean in early August.

A British inventor has taken up the challenge to deliver a letter across open water through donning a jet engine-powered suit, 85 years after the idea of rocket post failed. Richard Browning has followed in the footsteps of German entrepreneur Gerhard Zucker, who tried to send mail by rocket to the Isle of Wight, in 1934. The distance from Hurst Castle in Lymington to Fort Albert in Freshwater is 1.3 km, and is the furthest Richard has ever flown.

Rhys Williams, from Bolton, has epidermolysis bullosa, a painful, life-limiting condition that has left him unable to walk. As he turns 14, his mother has made an appeal for people to send him birthday cards to help improve his mood. He has received 18,000, which he says has made him feel "a lot better".

A BBC News investigation has found that children are being placed at risk of abuse in unregistered homes. Young people over the age of 16 are increasingly being placed in homes not designed to provide care but instead offer support – known as semi-independent living. The BBC has learned more than a dozen investigations into so-called organised or complex abuse allegations have been launched by councils across the UK into failures to protect children over the last four years. The Department for Education says: "Councils have a legal duty to make sure accommodation for these children is suitable". The BBC's Noel Titheradge and Ed Thomas have this report.

Hackers around the world, often teenagers, are making thousands by creating and selling games cheats to a growing market. The most recent survey suggests that around a third of gamers admit to using them to improve their chances online. Cyber-security reporter Joe Tidy went to play a game with a cheat hacker to find out how the 17-year-old makes thousands of dollars a month through his underground business. In China recently, four alleged hackers were arrested for similar offences.

A social enterprise in Paris is trying to persuade restaurants to turn food waste into compost. It's doing this with the help of a team of city cyclists and "rocket" technology imported from Macclesfield, England.

'People think I'm four or five years old'

The borough of Haringey in north London has one of the highest rates of knife crime in the capital. The BBC's Clive Myrie hears from community members - including teachers, a retired policewoman, a bus driver and a social worker - about their experiences and perceptions of knife crime.

One ticket-holder in the UK has won £170m in the country's biggest ever lottery win in Tuesday night's Euromillions draw. A winner has yet to come forward and players are being urged to check their tickets. Neil Trotter won £107.9m on the Euromillions lottery in 2014.

A woman who has campaigned for safety improvements on a "dangerous" road since her husband was seriously hurt in a crash says she has "never come across a road like it". Lynsey Langdon's partner Greg was left in a wheelchair after being hit by a car dashing across a cut-through in the A505 between Baldock and Royston in Hertfordshire in 2016. Hertfordshire County Council said: "We have been actively addressing safety concerns... following a number of high-profile incidents. "[A commissioned report] suggests a number of options with regards to banning right-turn movements and improving slip roads."

Rapman on being discovered by Jay-Z and becoming a director.

The man was knocked off his feet while carrying a child during stormy weather on the Isle of Wight.

A father has shared the moment he turns his daughter's hearing aids on in the morning. Paul Addison, from Harrogate, tweeted a video of his four-month-old Georgina reacting to her mother's voice. Georgina was diagnosed as severely deaf in September and wears a hearing aid in each ear. Mr Addison said: "You use these hearing aids and it's like the lights have been switched on."

The head of the Alzheimer’s Society says that the UK is facing a humanitarian crisis, because the care system is failing those with dementia and their families.The number of us who will provide care at home for a loved one with dementia is set to rise by almost one million by 2035. Here are the stories of Anne and Julia – who both care full time for their husbands. Anne’s husband John has been assessed as having no mental capacity and goes to a day centre two days a week. Julia spent months fighting for social services and occupational therapy help for her husband Bob. He is currently being assessed in a home, after he went missing and was found during an extensive police search.