An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model. Pretty Taylor Crisp, 19, from Leicester, was born with femur fibula ulna syndrome, which left her with a shortened femur on her right leg, no kneecap or ankle and a missing toe. After contracting an infection in her right leg, Taylor was forced to choose between life in a wheelchair or amputation.
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .
A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind .
A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .
A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
CRAZY BEARDS come into their GROWN when they've been twisted and waxed into shape .
WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .
A ROAD KILL munching Scot has chewed on everything from a dead squirrel to an unlucky crow – all in the name of art .
A Crohn's sufferer has told of her humiliation after she soiled herself when a Co-op staff member reportedly refused to let her use the toilet .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .