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The 26-year-old 800m runner (inset) wed Violet Raseboya in a lavish traditional ceremony in her native South Africa (left) while also celebrating her 26th birthday. Semenya, who has faced controversy throughout her career and was once forced to undergo humiliating gender testing to prove she was female due to her high levels of testosterone, uploaded pictured of the event at an exclusive venue in Pretoria and called it 'our perfect day'. She donned a blue 'Prince Charming'-style outfit while Violet wore a full-length white lace and appliqué dress (right).

Kelly Robinson from Wigan has made an emotional plea on Facebook begging youngsters not to try the class-A drug. Her 16-year-old ended up in a coma on Boxing day after popping a pill. The pictures have gone viral with hundreds of people offering support and sharing stories.

A man who was born female has become the first in Britain to get pregnant. Former Asda worker Hayden Cross, 20, decided to pause his gender reassignment process so he could give birth. Hayden (pictured as a man two years ago) found a sperm donor on Facebook and become pregnant four months ago. He will complete his transition, which will remove his breasts and ovaries, after his child is born.

The Queen, 90, attended the church service at Sandringham today, after missing the traditional Christmas and New Year's services for the first time. The monarch was seen arriving by car (left) at St Mary Magdalene Church with a blue blanket over her lap just before 11am this morning. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (right), along with the Middleton family - including Pippa Middleton (inset) - walked to church this morning from Sandringham House.

Carole, 61, was joined by her family for the church service at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk on Sunday morning, after spending the Christmas break at home with Kate and William (inset). The couple decided to snub the traditional gathering in Sandringham in favour of a private Christmas at the Middleton home near Bucklebury in Berkshire.

Former EastEnders actor Sid, who famously played Ricky Butcher, appeared on ITV's property guessing game on Saturday night, though as host Keith Lemon conducted a tour of the home, audiences were very impressed by his converted farmhouse, located in the south of France and complete with swimming pool.

A video blogger dad broadcast his wife's C-section on Facebook to 100,000 people - and even filmed while she was on the operating table. Stephen Skinner, 32, hit record just as Holly, 28, was heading to hospital to be induced and was expecting to capture the water birth of their first child on camera. Things didn't go to plan and doctors were forced to perform a C-section after the baby's head moved into a sideways position.The excited parents-to-be, both living in London, overcame the issues and baby Atlas was born on Boxing Day weighing 9Ibs 9 ounces.

Crystal Duke, 24, has a condition which means her body does not produce eggs. She and husband Terry, 34, of Ealing, West London, (left) treat the doll (right), which they named George, like a real child and it even has its own bottle. They approached an artist who crafted the doll's face using images of the couple as children (Crystal's inset) so that it looked like them.

Zoe Russell, 22, was left broken-hearted by Victor Spirescu (pictured together), the first migrant off the plane when Britain lifted visa restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians three years ago. Mr Spirescu was welcomed into Britain by Keith Vaz (pictured inset), then chairman of the home affairs select committee, on January 1, 2014. Zoe met him on a night out in September last year and after he told he was homeless she persuaded her mother, Anne Brown, to take him in. But Mrs Brown says her kindness has been repaid with subterfuge, debts and excuses.

Mocked for his mental capacity. Scalp cut repeatedly. Tied up. Forced to drink toilet water. By four black kids who made him kiss the floor and shout 'f*** white people' and 'f*** Trump'. I imagine these parents today, shocked into silence. Struck mute by the horror that everything they thought they knew last week is no longer true. That they were wrong to trust. Wrong to believe there is good in everyone. Wrong to think everything would be ok. It wasn't. Wondering if they will ever be able to talk about anything else, ever again. The four young friends suspected of torturing the special needs teenager in the Facebook live video are pictured: Bottom right Brittany Covington, 18, and her sister Tanisha Covington, 24, top right. Tesfaye Cooper, 18, bottom left, and Jordan Hill, 18, top left, who knew the victim (pictured left in the video).

Geoff Whitington (left) weighed more than 19 stone, had advanced type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and was popping handfuls of pills every day. Against what seemed like almost insurmountable odds at times - and against much resistance from Geoff at first - out went his beloved takeaways and in came a strict two-month, 800-calorie-a-day diet. It is based on a groundbreaking programme designed at Newcastle University and can help those who stick to it lose an incredible two stone in eight weeks. As well as this, Geoff gave up sitting on the sofa during his days off as a night-time security guard and went cycling and fishing instead. That was all three years ago, and his sons Ian and Anthony (pictured with him, right) chronicled 12 months of Geoff's journey on film.

Scottish Fifi Evelyn, 26, right, without her makeup on, who lives in East London, styles herself on ball-jointed dolls complete with huge doe eyes, porcelain skin and statuesque poses, left. Each morning the pink-obsessed clothing and accessories designer uses makeup, contact lenses and wigs to overhaul her natural look and become a walking figurine, inset. And Fifi - who claims she has never had plastic surgery - said her daily transformation into a real-life Japanese doll gives her a great sense of freedom and has boosted her self-confidence.

Melissa Parsons, 32, said she was horrified to see her abusive ex-boyfriend was involved in a riot at HMP Birmingham just weeks before he was jailed for attacking her last year. Ross Queen was jailed for 18 weeks last Wednesday at Birmingham Crown Court for assaulting the mother-of-one, whom he also 'harassed' for months after they broke up in September 2015. Ms Parsons said the attack left her 'afraid to be in her own home' and added she did not think Queen was 'remorseful' for the incident.

The Utah-based Tillotson family-of-five is hunting for a paid nanny to travel the world with them - from the US to Iceland, then around Europe and onto the Pacific islands and Asia. Their video appeal, top right and bottom left, has so far amassed more than 7.4 million views, and invited a flood of applications for the job - which comes with a $1,200-$1,500 (£976-£1,220) a month salary - though some have claimed the pay is too low. Pictured, top right, the couple in Utah and, bottom left, Mrs Tillotson with one of her young sons.

Lylah Fairless, four, of Missouri, the US, was born with a huge mole on the back of her head (left) that doctors feared could become a melanoma and develop fatal cancerous tumours. The only treatment doctors recommended was to have skin expanders placed under her hairline to be filled with fluid - similar to the surgery for breast implants. Surgeons have now been able to remove 90 per cent of the mole and replaced it with the excess skin created by the implants. Lylah (right with mother Ashley) is about to begin the final round of surgeries this year and her family are raising funds to afford them, after previously selling their house to cover her medical costs.

A woman has miraculously survived being sandwiched between two cars after a speeding joyrider, who tried to flee the scene immediately, smashed into her by a busy road. Kanta Anand, 40, was walking out of her home in Delhi, India, when the 17-year-old driver ploughed into her. She is then dragged more than 50 yards by the white MUV car before horror footage shows it ramming into a black vehicle pulling out of a junction.Incredibly she only suffered a fractured hip and following surgery is now stable in hospital.

Lindsey Briggs has just won a heartbreaking legal battle against NHS doctors and Government lawyers. They believe in the sanctity of husband Paul's life. Lindsey insists he would want to die. And while the case of Briggs versus Briggs is one family's tragedy, it is now also the crux of a national argument about who speaks for someone when they cannot: their family or the state. Lindsey, who lives on the Wirral with daughter Ella, five, now expects to move her husband to a hospice one day this week. There, he will be allowed to slip away, heavily sedated as food, drink and medical treatments are gradually withdrawn.

A woman has revealed how a mission to transform her body helped pull her out of the depths of depression. Lucy Watson, 33, (pictured) who grew up in England but lives in Sydney, Australia, said that in her 20s she was working long hours in her advertising job and found herself turning to food and alcohol for comfort. But as she approached her 30th birthday, (left) she realised a 'serious lifestyle overhaul' was due. Documenting her progress online (centre) Ms Watson transformed her body and became a bikini competitor (right) and personal trainer.

Men with quiffs and tight rhinestone-studded outfits descended on Birmingham this weekend. Now in its fifteenth year the European Elvis Championships attracted fans young and old of the King of Rock and Roll. They were there to watch 80 Presley impersonators do battle to be crowned the best of the best.

Sitting atop the Hongshui River in the Luodian County of southwest China, the vast pathway, pictured, opened on New Year's Day to a flurry of fireworks, and has so far attracted more than 60,000 tourists. During the day, tourists can enjoy various entertainment displays and partake in water sports, while at night, the entire floating spectacle - which would take the average human ten hours to walk the length of - turns into a dazzling light parade, bottom left.

This is the incredible moment a good Samaritan freed a bird with his breath after it became stuck on a frozen metal gate. Nelson Miller of Caldwell, Idaho, found the distressed sparrow unable to fly off as he fed his horses on New Year's Day. The bird had gotten its feet wet after it went for a drink in the horses' tub but as it tried to make an exit, it found itself frozen to the fence in sub-zero temperatures. Nelson gently grabbed hold of the flapping bird as it started to fall backwards and then worked his magic.

Hilarious footage of a donkey using his mouth to open a gate-as oppose to jumping over it-has taken the internet by storm.Unlike his athletic companions in the Paradise sanctuary in Ronco Scrivia, northern Italy this free thinker was not prepared to jump. Instead, Oreste paused to think about how to solve the problem he faced. He pushed his nose against the fence as if to inspect it before taking a step back and lifting the wooden pole up from its lock with his mouth.