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 .

SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .

A mum-of-three lost half of her body weight after her daughter was teased by playground bullies for having a 'fat mum' .

A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .

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 .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

Bryanna Debinder, 20, from Pennsylvania in the USA, has lost 7 stone in order to impress her idol .

A young mum has told how a phantom pregnancy almost destroyed her dream of having a second child .

A transgender model, who has spent £180k on surgery to become a ‘desirable’ woman, has told of her struggle to find a man who is openly accepting of trans-women .