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

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .

A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .

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

A mother-of-three who weighed almost 16st has revealed how she lost 7 .

SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .

A woman has lost over 13st after beating her addiction to POTATOES .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .