A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach. Hali Jafari, 33, from Bristol once weighed a whopping 22st, but is now a svelte 11st and size 10. The mum-of-three forked out £11k on gastric sleeve surgery after her GP told her she had the cholesterol of a 70-year-old. Hali, a deputy manager for a cosmetic company, said: "My doctor gave me the wake up call I needed. I was slowly eating myself to death. I was in a terrible state.
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
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WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
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Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .