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.
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A group of shelter dogs showcase their loveable personalities in a series of passport-style photographs - in the hope of finding their forever homes .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
WELCOME to the 125 decibel boombox bus that could damage your hearing if you party too close to its giant speakers .
