An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model. Pretty Taylor Crisp, 19, from Leicester, was born with femur fibula ulna syndrome, which left her with a shortened femur on her right leg, no kneecap or ankle and a missing toe. After contracting an infection in her right leg, Taylor was forced to choose between life in a wheelchair or amputation.
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .