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.
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .