FROM COLOURFUL autumn leaves to living trees at first glance you might miss these people blended with nature .

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 .

Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror .

A woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .

Lauren Kilgariff, 29, was with husband, Shaun, 31, for four years .

This daredevil wildebeest tried a walk on the wild side - straight into the snatches of a huge 18 foot crocodile .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .

A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

A mum-of-two has worn the same t-shirt for an entire year to raise awareness of a 1 in 7 million condition that prevents her daughter from talking .

WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .