Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror. She had every reason to be proud. In the space of a year, she had lost an incredible 17 stone. Her weight dropped from 37st 1lbs to 19st 7lbs, and she slipped into a dress before gazing at her newly svelte figure. With her smokey eye makeup and black skater dress, she could have been glamming up for a night on the tiles with her girlfriends. Instead, it was Halloween, 2013, and Ava was hiding a huge secret. Born a boy named William, it was the first time she had ever dressed as a girl – and everything fell into place.
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .