Activist Wajiha al-Hajjar believes that the protests were not brutally cracked down on like others in Syria, because Assad wanted to show the world and his foreign allies that he was protecting minorities.

He lost 10kg in his first month of service, due to a diet of cracked corn and mouldy cabbage.

I decided to visit a chiropractor, a young slim man who tugged and turned and cracked my entire body.

Suddenly aware of her powers, she cracked up.

Yet despite her global success, there are still markets she hasn't yet cracked - the UK, for example, where she's still not widely known.