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 RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
