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 photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
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A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .