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.
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
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 .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .