When Janet Curry, 38, was told she was ‘too big to date’ by a man she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish, she didn’t let it stop her from looking for love .

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 .

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

Thousands of people are gathering at a stadium in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela .

Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .

A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .

WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .

WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .

An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .

A Kermit the Frog toy made famous by travelling the world is still globehopping, having racked up an incredible 420,000 kilometres to some of the world's furthest flung places .

MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .