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

FOR TWO memory-impaired parents their new-born baby Cian is a living timekeeper .

A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .

A woman has revealed how she left her husband of 24 years, after falling in love with a man, 18 years her junior .

An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

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 .

A bear cub unwinds in a forest in eastern Finland by practicing yoga with a series of stretches .

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

Meet the Victorian gentleman who could not face sitting next to smelly commuters on the bus - so he dodges danger to go to work on a penny farthing .

A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .

WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .