A talented 16st pole dancer who was once dubbed a 'disgusting human form' by online trolls is fighting back to show her bullies that big is beautiful .

SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .

These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .

A woman who blew £12k of her student loan on junk food and booze has lost 10st after ditching her unhealthy habits .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .

Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .

A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .

A pair of bank myna birds fight it out in front of their ladies .

A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .

Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .