A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face .

A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .

A transgender woman has revealed how she was able to fund her transformation using £100K gifted to her by online admirers .

PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .

A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .

STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .

A mum-of-two, who was scarred for life in a brutal attack at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, is now urging others to leave their abusive partners .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .

A BLIND school-girl whose growth has been stunted by a rare medical condition is finding her feet again with the help of a specially made mini-cane .