Robyn Rees, from Darlington, Durham, said she was too tempted by all-you-can-eat buffets and endless cocktails while on all-inclusive breaks - which saw her tip the scales at 16 stone (left and inset). It was only when 23-year-old Robyn - who had spent more than £7,220 on exotic trips - was told she was too fat for IVF that she decided to lose the holiday weight. Swearing off all-inclusive breaks for good, Robyn, who has more than 30,000 Instagram fans after posting images of her journey, embarked on a healthy diet and lost 6st 7lbs - and now weighs a lean 9st 7lbs (right).

We treated two women including Alice Johnston, 23, from London, to a make-under, left, followed by a make-over, right, and asked a very critical panel of male judges to share which look they actually preferred. Prior to the beauty experiment, our judges shared their views on where they think British women are going wrong. The verdict? Too much bronzer, patchy fake tan and eyelashes that do 'ten backflips and a twirl.' So what did they think when we compared the two looks?

Luiz Fernando Candeia was pictured dangling off a ledge at Pedra Da Tartaruga in Brazil, without any safety gear or protection. Luiz demonstrated unbelievable core strength to maintain the nail-biting position no strings attached, a nerve-wracking 300ft above the sea.

UPDATED Retired teacher Darlene Horton, 64, was due to return to America with her professor husband today but died after being brutally stabbed by a crazed knifeman in Russell Square last night. The keen tennis player has spent the last few weeks in the UK with her husband, psychology lecturer Richard Wagner, as part of a summer study programme and was due to return to the US today. The Somali-born attacker, Zakaria Bulhan, 19, walked up to his unsuspecting victims and slashed them with a kitchen knife. Ms Horton's last words were 'he's still here' as she tried to warn others of the attacker. Witnesses said her shocked husband sobbed nearby as her body lay sprawled on the pavement overnight. Tonight, it emerged that the man accused of stabbing Ms Horton to death and injuring five others was a 'quiet, shy pupil who was bullied at his London secondary school'. As well as killing Ms Horton, the knifeman also injured Israeli holidaymaker Yovel Levkowki, 18 (left). She said today she was 'lucky to be alive'.

Australian Jeremy Webb was the First Officer on board the Boeing 777 flight which smashed into the runway at Dubai International Airport before exploding into a giant fireball. Today his friends and relatives told of their relief and how they were 'blessed' after Mr Webb helped all on board survive the terrifying crash yesterday. It comes as the father of a firefighter killed trying to tackle the fierce blaze paid tribute to his 'hero' son.

The Australian women's water polo team have had their first training since arriving in Rio on Monday. The Stingers took the opportunity to test their new state-of-the-art Speedo uniforms (left and right). Team members were all smiles as they took to the water at Maria Lenk pool, after the squad was struck down by a mystery stomach bug earlier in the week. The team has its first clash against Russia next Tuesday.

The Chinese team's complaints range from smashed sinks (left) and broken toilets (bottom right), to the type of food which is on offer in Rio's Olympic Village, while a video of the table tennis team fixing their shower curtain has even gone viral (top right). On Weibo, China's version of Twitter, people dubbed it 'the worst Olympic games we have ever encountered', with others pleading with their sport-stars to 'return safely'. There was one upside, however: as one user noted the perceived failure of Rio's organising committee meant 'London is finally able to regain some face'.

A 19-year-old organised crime figure who mentored two teenage Apex (pictured left is one of the founders of the gang) members on how to commit jewellery raids has been arrested by police. On July 7, the 17-year-olds armed themselves with sledgehammers and raided two jewellery stores on Russell St and Sydney Rd in Coburg, Melbourne, making away with $200,000 worth of goods. Police claim Mahmoud Taha (right) supplied the boys with 'tools' for the heist and met up with them afterwards to ask if they got 'the stuff'.

NEW Anything from high heels to iPhones can be used to defend yourself against an attacker. Use hairspray as an alternative to mace and spray your attacker right in the face. Put your keys in between your fingers to improvise a set of brass knuckles. Even your phone is a weapon - just use it to smack your attacker across the nose.

Police are still searching for the killer after they say the 30-year-old was sexually assaulted and strangled in Howard Beach, Queens, after going for a run on her own. The beauty's devastated father found her body covered in cuts, scratches and bruises and with her pants pulled down, reports suggest. The grisly new details emerged as her father Phil (right), a retired FDNY firefighter who was working during 9/11, returned to the scene on Thursday morning. The NYPD They added that there was bruising to her buttocks and the backs of her upper thighs. The aspiring writer's panties were believed to have been pulled down below her buttocks. Her headphones and one of her sneakers had been taken. But her cellphone was still at the scene. Cops are now offering a $2,500 reward (inset) for anyone with any information that can lead to the suspect's arrest. An autopsy late Wednesday confirmed Karina Vetrano's cause of death was strangulation. The manner of death was a homicide.

Holly Hodgson (inset) found out her son Teddy (right) had the birth defect gastroschisis when a radiologist performing her 12-week ultrasound saw the loops of his intestines poking through a hole in his abdomen. The first time mother, from Brisbane, should have been caught up in the whimsy of laying eyes on her child for the very first time, but instead her doctor told her she should terminate the pregnancy as that was his experience in three other cases. Ms Hodgson and her husband Stephen refused to accept the doctor's advice and were surprised to find up to 95 per cent of babies diagnosed with the condition survive the pregnancy after doing some research online. Teddy was placed cling wrap (left) when he was born then put in a silo bag for almost a fortnight to give his stomach time to grow and his organs could be put back inside.

Hungarian cartoonist Gergely Dudas has created another tricky cartoon, this time challenging the internet to find the fish hiding in underwater scene along with some octopuses. The fish is cleverly disguised alongside octopuses of a similar hue to it. Dudas first drove the internet mad trying to find a panda among a group of snowmen, then he challenged people to pick out a cat blended into rows of owls.

Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk's British wife Tallulah Riley has opened her heart about the couple's on-off, on-off relationship five months after she sued for divorce for a THIRD time. She filed for divorce in 2012, remarried in 2013, filed again in 2014 but withdrew it the following year, only to sue for divorce again in March this year. But Riley, (pictured with Musk), said: 'We really are best friends. I'll always love him, I'll always be there for him.' She is Musk's second wife and he is currently said to be dating actress Amber Heard. Riley herself is involved in a new start-up app and she said: 'I learned a lot about business and Silicon Valley from Elon and having a front-row seat for eight years, which was fantastic.'

The two men are seen kneeling on the ground before a masked jihadi in the desert of the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. Gruesome footage then shows the men, who were wearing orange boiler suits, lying in a pool of blood having been shot in the head. In the same video, ISIS fanatics in Egypt deliver a rare direct threat to Israel, saying the Jewish state will soon 'pay a high price.'

Kris Jenner has been treated by paramedics at the scene of a car crash near her Calabasas home. The reality TV star and business mogul may have broken her wrist, according to TMZ.  The accident happened on the 101 freeway with onlookers telling the site her Rolls-Royce collided with a Prius and the force of the impact deployed the airbag.

Behind-the-scenes images from the shooting of the Channel Ten reality program reveal several camera operators and crew members gathering around the contestants, dictating positions and zooming in on every move and kiss.
Images reveal Richie Strahan filming a single date with contestant Alex Nation (top left), the pair being handed some fresh breath mints before locking lips. Meanwhile, the first single date for this season was shared between Richie and real-estate agent Nikki Grogan (right), but their private time together wasn't so private. As the pair chatted away on the shore, there were at least eight crew members perched on the surrounding rocks, with cameras in hand to capture the action from every angle.

Daniel White, of Monmouth, broke up with teenage sweetheart Courtney Davies (left together) after a two-year romance. He was left dreaming of what could have been yesterday when it emerged Courtney was getting a £12million share of her mother Sonia's fortune. Mr White lives next door to Sonia's older daughter, Stephanie (inset with Sonia and Courtney), who bought the lucky ticket just hours before the EuroMillions draw.

A homeless woman (left) has been reunited with her family after her 10-year-old son Evan (bottom right) spotted her being handed a sandwich as part of a viral YouTube video (top right). The woman had disappeared from her family over half a year ago, after battling with drug addiction and ongoing mental health conditions.

A dress by Australian designer Grace Loves Lace has been dubbed the most popular in the world after being posted more than 2.5 million times, more than any other dress. The Hollie gown (right) has even been worn by UK it girl Millie Mackintosh and the label sold 2,000 of the dress before running out of the lace for the bodice. Although you can no longer buy the original, Grace Loves Lace has designed the Hollie 2.0 (left and inset) which is very similar to the Hollie, and some dresses can be found to buy on Gumtree.

For these creative users of Snapchat, fails and mishaps with their favourite foods are just another excuse to share moments from their day on the photo-sharing app. The pictures show that a witty caption or an eccentric use of the doodle tool can make a standard picture of your dinner hysterical. Photos show a Snapchat user with herbs all over their hands, wittily captioned: 'I've got way too much thyme on my hands.' Another image shows a dismayed person finding some frozen Dory fish in the supermarket and worrying that their favourite Finding Nemo character has met a sticky end.

The victim, 30, suffered a broken pelvis and serious leg injuries after being struck by the vehicle in a Norfolk car park (top left and right), and was thrown 15ft in the air before landing in a heap (bottom left). He then narrowly escaped a second attempt by the driver to run him over (bottom right). Police have released CCTV footage of the incident in an attempt to track down the driver of the vehicle, believed to be a blue Peugeot 307. Detectives are treating the incident as attempted murder and it is understood there may have been up to three other people in the car at the time. A 43-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and released on bail.

A fisherman has been photographed dicing with death on a cliff as three metre swells and 30km/hr winds batterred the coast of Vaucluse in Sydney's eastern suburbs. The fisherman can be seen fleeing from the rock after one wave narrowly avoids sweeping him off to rough seas. Heavy winds and torrential rains have lashed Sydney's east coast, with the State Emergency Service receiving 50 call-outs overnight.

A Queensland man stepped into his backyard to find two kangaroos going tail-to-tail in a hugely athletic brawl which he caught on camera. The vision shows the bouncing brawlers punching and kicking one another in the face and torso, even launching several feet into the air during the true-blue scrap. Male kangaroos fights when faced with competitive situations such as a female, so it's likely this was romantically-fuelled.

Hundreds have died since Rodrigo Duterte won a landslide election in May, promising to rid society of drugs in six months by killing tens of thousands of criminals. One man (top left) was attacked as he drove his tricycle, his body left hanging from the humble vehicle as blood dripped onto the street. Other people have simply turned up dead in deserted streets and vacant lots at night, their faces cocooned in packaging tape and with cardboard signs accusing them of being drug dealers hanging on their chests. The attacks have left wives and relatives crying and fainting at the carnage, but also driven drug users and small-time dealers into frantic mass surrenders to district officials. Police say a staggering 565,806 have turned themselves in. WARNING: Graphic content.

Bhupinder Singh (left), 16, from India, suffers from neurofibromatosis. He was born with a small tumour on his eyelid, but as he grew older it engulfed his face, leaving him unable to see properly. He was shunned from school because of his unusual appearance, leaving him too scared to leave the safety of his village where he is accepted by friends and family (bottom right). But despite his fear, Bhupinder is just like any other energetic, spirited boy of his age - as he has learnt to love cricket (top right). And although he can't go to school, he reads books every day - mainly in his favourite language, English - despite suffering excruciating pain due to being blind in his right eye.

Ohio mom Faith Christopher and her husband Gregory recently learned that they will be expecting a fourth child. They decided to tell their three sons the news by writing 'Is it a boy or girl?' on a cake. The boys were so excited to hear that they were getting a new sibling, that they screamed with joy and one even leapt up for a somersault. However, one of them joked that he was leaving the celebration to go cry in his room (bottom right).

A man was spotted by police carrying two cows and four people inside a minivan in Suining, south-west China's Sichuan province on August 2. Police stopped the vehicle after they saw the livestock and were shocked to discover the people inside too. The minivan was later impounded for having missed an annual inspection and for carrying a mixed cargo of humans and livestock.

English tattooist Croc Coulter is the unlikely master of the traditional Polynesian art of Ttatau and he is dedicated to passing on the revered Cook Island tradition to his apprentice Moko Smith (bottom right). Ttatau tattooing is the process where the skin is struck with handmade tools of bone or tusks, and ink to create elaborate symmetrical patterns or designs steeped in tradition (main, top right).