Nico Williams (Image: Wikipedia) A winner’s medal usually gets read as proof of what an athlete just achieved on the pitch. Nico Williams, the Spanish footballer, read his differently. “I run very fast, but I can’t run as fast as my mother,” he said. “Because she once escaped death and crossed the Sahara Desert from…

In 1995, a routine day at a funeral home in southern China took an extraordinary turn when a worker noticed that a young woman who had already been declared dead was still alive. Without any identification, no family beside her and barely any signs of life after collapsing days earlier, she had been mistaken for…