Valgerour Halla came into the world under unusual circumstances. The four-month-old was born in Reykjavik to Syrian asylum seekers who were so thankful they gave her an Icelandic name.
In an interview, the family described an arduous flight from war in Syria, the long journey across Europe and how they chose a cold fishing island deep in the Arctic circle to start anew.
Though banned, the centuries-old custom of confining women to a cowshed during their period persists in Nepal, with damaging and even fatal results.
The scientist behind the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine says people in the UK could be vaccinated against coronavirus by the middle of next month.
Speaking in his first interview with a UK broadcaster, Professor Ugur Sahin, co-founder of German firm BioNTech, said the first vaccines could be rolled out to patients nationwide mid-December.
Auschwitz survivor Alberto Israel, 93, was detained at the camp in Poland in 1944 when he was 17 years old. He says he still has nightmares about it.