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.
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .