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

A transgender woman has beaten the bullies after spending £25K on surgery to become a beauty pageant queen .

Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .

Meet the real life anime girl who looks like a living cartoon character despite never going under the knife .

A hero dog has saved the life of her asthmatic owner after waking her up during a severe asthma attack .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .