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AT MOST restaurants you’d probably complain if you found an insect in your dinner, but at Eat Grub’s pop-up restaurants, that’s exactly the point. Selling roasted crickets with garden herbs, edible grasshoppers, insect protein powders and energy bars, Eat Grub also puts on pop-up dining experiences to promote using insects as a sustainable and delicious food source. One of the founders Shami Radia said: "We think that actually they can be easily incorporated into people’s daily lives, instead of having nuts or crisps while watching the football you can have some roasted crickets." Along with chef Seb Holmes, co-founders Shami and Neil Whippey, devised a 5-course meal for their latest pop-up, which combined chef Seb’s love of Thai street food and the co-founders’ passion for insects. Grasshoppers, mealworms, house crickets and buffalo worms were all on the menu at the pop-up. Videographer / director: Jay Sohrabi Producer: Shannon Lane, Ed Baranski Editor: Sonia Estal

A VOLUPTUOUS beauty therapist has opened a salon for plus-sized women – after a chair collapsed underneath her weight in a hairdressers. Jamie Lopez was inspired to open Babydoll Beauty Couture in Las Vegas following her humiliating experience. The 31-year-old’s salon features styling chairs that hold weights of up to 800 pounds and provides a welcoming environment for pampering plus-sized women. Videographer / director: John Balson Producer: Sophia Rahman, Ruby Coote Editor: Marcus Cooper

Amanda McLaughlin has Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD) - a rare condition that means she feels as though she is always on the brink of orgasm. Incredibly painful, Amanda is under the care of Dr Gupta who is trying different therapies to try and help her. Amanda hopes to raise awareness of the disorder and find help by speaking out. Videographer / director: Jeremiah Fabre Producer: Katie Mercer, Ruby Coote Editor: James Thorne

Hidden in the backstreets of central London is a tongue-in-cheek arcade poking fun at modern society. Novelty Automation in Holborn, London is the brainchild of eccentric inventor and engineer Tim Hunkin. He was trained as an engineer but started building his arcade machines as a way of poking fun at power and authority. Tim says: “I enjoyed the course but one thing I knew when I came out of it was that I didn’t want to work in an office.” You won’t find no Pac Man or PinBall machine in this arcade. But if you want to see what it feels like to win a Nobel Prize or to experience a divorce, then this is the place for you! Some of the other machines include My Nuke; Personal Nuclear Reactor, Money Laundering, Autofrisk, Alien Probe, Microbreak, Pet or Meat, and Celeb! - where the player must fly as a paparazzi drone to photograph celebrities. Tim starts by building prototypes; he says that the most fun about building these machines is that he loves being in his workshop and “thinking” with his hands. His latest creation is called iZombie, which in turn pokes fun at the generation addicted to their smart phones. The goal of the game is to avoid oncoming zombies, as they are engrossed in their smart devices. That is one man who managed to make his job fun! Video Credits: Videographer / director: Marcus Cooper Producer: Shannon Lane, Ed Baranski Editor: Dan Cousins

Blackburn born Kimberly Taylor is fighting ISIS with the Women’s Protection Units in Syria’s unofficial “capital” Raqqa. Women who fight against ISIS in this stronghold have two incentives: they fight for a better future, with more freedom and rights, and the Islamic belief that a soldier will not go to paradise if he is killed by a woman. The 27-year-old is believed to be the first female Brit to have travelled to Syria to fight against ISIS – and made headlines earlier this year for her efforts. Her original intent to stay for just a few weeks changed when she got invited by a women’s organization to write about the women’s revolution. “Why would I go home to continue studying books about politics and revolution when I can live the life of them?” says the Brit, who is also known by her adoptive Kurdish name Zilan Dilber. She fights alongside Kurdish and Arab women alike. The UN estimates there are still between 20-50,000 civilians in Raqqa and has called for the US-backed coalition to call a temporary halt to its assault in order to evacuate more civilians. For the YPJ women, fighting on the front line is about more than the immediate battle against ISIS. Videographer / director: Deniz Producer: Nathalie Bonney, Ruby Coote Editor: Sonia Estal, Joshua Douglas

NINE-YEAR-OLD Katie Renfroe suffers with a condition so rare that it doesn’t even have a name. Katie was diagnosed with megalencephaly at birth, a growth development disorder characterised by the overgrowth of the brain. However, this diagnosis does not explain the other symptoms that Katie experiences and doctors have said her mystery condition is so rare, they are unable to identify it. Angie Renfroe, Katie’s mother, has been awaiting a full diagnosis of her daughter ever since her birth and doctors have started to discuss the possibility of naming the unknown condition after Katie. Videographer / director: Ryan Vanderploeg Producer: Danny Baggott, Ruby Coote Editor: Jack Stevens

NINE-YEAR-OLD Katie Renfroe suffers with a condition so rare that it doesn’t even have a name. Katie was diagnosed with megalencephaly at birth, a growth development disorder characterised by the overgrowth of the brain. However, this diagnosis does not explain the other symptoms that Katie experiences and doctors have said her mystery condition is so rare, they are unable to identify it. Angie Renfroe, Katie’s mother, has been awaiting a full diagnosis of her daughter ever since her birth and doctors have started to discuss the possibility of naming the unknown condition after Katie. Videographer / director: Ryan Vanderploeg Producer: Danny Baggott, Ruby Coote Editor: Jack Stevens

A colour blind make-up artist is proving that you don’t need to see the full colour spectrum to succeed. Toby Michael, 23, is an “extreme deutan”, meaning he struggles to distinguish between blues and purples, greens and browns, and reds, browns and greens all together. Even though some doubted his ability to master make-up without a full colour spectrum at his disposal, Toby has proven them wrong by becoming a successful social media FX artist. Videographer / director: Toby Michael Producer: Hannah Stevens, Ed Baranski Editor: Sonia Estal

Superhero-obsessed Kaden Casebolt has a rare condition which causes his bones to break as easily as a ‘glass doll’. But despite his physical fragility, the spirited five-year-old loves nothing more than dressing up as comic book hero Iron Man or ‘Man of Steel’ Superman. Kaden, from Dallas, Texas, has a brittle bone condition that means his bones can shatter simply by sneezing, but won’t let anything hold him back. Despite suffering over 40 fractures since birth, he enjoys play fighting, dancing and singing, playing his guitar and racing around on his specially adapted bike with his mum, Valorie Salsman, dad, Kelby Casebolt and stepdad, Benjamin Herzog. Videographer / director: Chris Sinclair Producer: Emma Pearson, Ruby Coote Editor: James Thorne

AN African-American man claims to have found a natural remedy for lightening the colour of his skin. Fraink White has been tampering with his skin pigmentation since he was a child in the hope of making his facial features “more prominent”. The 28-year-old strongly maintains that lightening his skin tone has nothing to do with wanting to change race. And now, the self-proclaimed 'social media personality’ claims that he has developed a '100 percent natural' skin lightening product that he sells to customers around the world as part of his cosmetic business. Videographer / director: Silton Buendia Producer: Danny Baggott, Ruby Coote Editor: Sonia Estal

A 31-year-old woman has turned her back on expensive rents and property prices - by living full time in a van. With an interior measuring just 13ft 2in long, 5ft 8in wide and 6ft 2in high, Eileah Ohning’s home is her Freightliner Sprinter High Top van. The photographic producer from Columbus, Ohio, has lived in her compact four-wheel home since May 2017. Complete with a memory foam mattress, storage compartments, a desk and a camping stove, she even has plans to add in a shower, toilet and fridge. Eileah parks her van close enough to her workplace that she never needs to worry about the morning commute and showers at her local gym. Not many people would go for a move as bold and unusual as this one, but when faced with astronomic sums for bills and rent in total, this seems like a perfectly acceptable option. Plus, she gets to travel whenever she feels like it, and has one of the most unique homes in the world! This shows that with a bit of research in tiny houses, a small investment and a lot of creativity, you can make your dream home yourself! Would you consider doing this? Videographer / director: Adam Lee Producer: Nathalie Bonney, Ruby Coote Editor: Marcus Cooper

Artist creates photorealistic portraits, galaxies and intricate meals using nothing but salt. Using salt he dyes himself, Afghan-Canadian artist Bashir Sultani spends up to five hours creating each of his masterpieces. His pieces can use between ten and 20 full salt shakers and, since he started experimenting with salt, he has taken over 100 time lapses of his creations for his YouTube channel. In this video, you can check him out creating a yummy hamburger, a scary skull, very lifelike pickle, and also some famous fictitious and real people. His talent is undeniable, and also very creative. All of his works are very lifelike, especially the food (kinda makes you want to eat it, but it's probably really, really salty). But probably the most satisfying part of the video is the part where he goes through the salt with his hands, destroying his masterpieces only to create new ones. Would you consider trying to paint with salt yourself? You may not be this good, but it's a really fun activity that you can do with your kids, and it requires ingredients that you probably already have at home. Give it a try, maybe with some hard practice, you can create incredible and intricate masterpieces yourself. Videographer / director: Bashir Sultani Producer: Hannah Stevens, Ruby Coote Editor: James Thorne

A TRANSGENDER soldier says he was told, days after President Trump banning transgender people from the military, that he must carry out the rest of his military career as a woman if he wants to keep his job. Hayden Brown says that just days after Donald Trump tweeted he was to ban all transgender people from the military, he received a call from his unit telling him he must revert back to female to continue his service. The 23-year-old from Pennsylvania has been in the armed forces for four and a half years, initially identifying as a woman. Videographer / director: Ruaridh Connellan Producer: Katie Mercer, Ruby Coote Editor: James Thorne

A TRANSGENDER soldier says he was told, days after President Trump banning transgender people from the military, that he must carry out the rest of his military career as a woman if he wants to keep his job. Hayden Brown says that just days after Donald Trump tweeted he was to ban all transgender people from the military, he received a call from his unit telling him he must revert back to female to continue his service. The 23-year-old from Pennsylvania has been in the armed forces for four and a half years, initially identifying as a woman. Videographer / director: Ruaridh Connellan Producer: Katie Mercer, Ruby Coote Editor: James Thorne

A YOUNG WOMAN born without a vagina hopes to have a life-changing surgery that would allow her to have sex with her boyfriend and, in her own words, "feel like a woman.” Kaylee Moats, 22, from Gilbert, Arizona, was born with Mayer Rokitansky Küster Hauser syndrome (MRKH), which means she has no cervix, uterus, or vaginal opening. To donate towards Kaylee’s surgery visit: https://www.gofundme.com/zpw46v-kaylees-surgical-fund Videographer / director: Susan Tan Producer: Nora Hakramaj, Ruby Coote Editor: Alberto Falcone

Sunder Ramu, an actor, comes up with a very interesting way to promote women's rights. He is raising awareness for women's rights in India by going on 365 different dates. Sunder Ramu began his campaign after becoming increasingly concerned about the insensitivity of Indian society towards women and their safety. He knew he had to do something to try and help. By meeting and talking to the women he goes on dates with, he opens up a dialogue for awareness and equal rights, this is awesome. He has now been on over 300 dates, and has earned the title of India's Dating King. The date that was shown in the video was with a women who used to be a yoga teacher and dancer. He is good friends with this women named Divya, but they haven't seen each other in quite a while. She explains that she likes this idea because the only motivation for this date is a conversation, nothing more. When the only motivation is a conversation, you learn so much about the other person and understand how they are feeling. On these dates, he asks the women to pay and in return, he donates money to different charities, so nice. He strongly believes in equality which is a wonderful thing. Videographer / director: Shams Qari Producer: Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Ruby Coote Editor: Alberto Falcone

A teenager in India has three of five fingers on both hands grown unusually large for a human. 12-year-old Tarik from Uttar Pradesh in India is facing scrutiny from his surrounding because of the way his hands have swollen in size. His hands have been unusually big since early age, but as he grew older, his fingers would grow even bigger. Now, his hands have grown to a staggering 12 inches. Tarik lives with his brother, aunt and uncle. His late father used to take him to see doctors from an early age, but every specialist that has seen him told the father that they should see someone on a higher level in medicine. Now, the boy is left without being able to get any sort of treatment. The locals are afraid of the unfortunate boy, thinking he might be cursed by the Devil himself. Tarik can’t even go to school, because the institutions have denied him admission. He doesn’t even have any friends, other than his brother. His family is too poor to pay for specialists to find a cure for him. The one doctor that has agreed to examine the boy says that this is the first case like this that he has seen and speculates that it might be similar to the Elephant Foot Disease. Videographer / director: Rare Shot Producer: Haziq Qadri, Ruby Coote Editor: James Thorne

A dad with dwarfism is taking his passion for powerlifting all the way to Tokyo 2020’s Paralympics. Following over 50 operations to treat his joints - a result of being born with diastrophic dwarfism - Rich Willis, found that he was completely reliant on pain medication to get through the day, but one comment from his five-year-old daughter Cherry turned everything around. Videographer / director: Dave Hare Producer: Hannah Stevens, Ruby Coote Editor: Joshua Douglas

Julian Molina from Andes, Colombia, hopes to become a BMX pro one day and he won’t let a missing leg stop him in achieving his goal! When he was just seven, Julian was hit by a bus that left his left foot crushed. The injury led to other complications and the developing gangrene made doctors amputate his entire leg after weeks spent in the hospital. That didn’t make the young thrill seeker set off his dreams, despite the traumatic experience. His positive outlook on life had begun taking shape the moment he left the hospital. He says that he felt happy just by leaving the awful food there. By the time he turned 13, Julian was able to afford his own BMX bike without the help of his parents, by selling chewing gum on the side of the road. His parents, Ruben and Dalila, encouraged him to continue living his life like a happy child, not to panic and to keep on persevering. It took just a few short months for Julian to become known for his skills on the bike, first locally and eventually he got invited to appear at BMX event in the USA. His dream now is to have a BMX store in a park, so that other enthusiasts can come over and have ride. Videographer / director: Urban Skargren Producer: Bunmi Adigun, Nick Johnson Editor: Sonia Estal

In our society we focus too much on the way we look and about what other people think about us. As long as you are trying to be healthy on your own accord, looking whatever way you want is fine! If you really want to change, you should be changing for yourself and because you want to, not because of what others think. If you are happy then that is all that matters. There are many people who bring that message to light. One such person is in this video right here! A plus-size yoga instructor is using her online following to prove that you don’t have to be skinny to be fit. When Maria Odugba first found yoga in 2014, she never thought that it would give her a platform to help others accept their bodies and forge a healthier path too. With her 73,000 strong Instagram page and blog, Maria is on a mission to show the world that your weight should never stop you from exploring fitness. Would you ever try yoga? What was your thought on this video? We would love to hear your opinion down in the comments section! Please share this inspirational video with your family and friends as it will surely make them feel good! This is one clip that no one should miss! Videographer / director: Francisco Hidalgo Producer: Hannah Stevens, Nick Johnson Editor: Marcu Cooper

There are many different artists in this world. However, no two artist are the same as they each have their own styles and techniques. It seems that the artist in this clip is a prime example of that! Graffiti artist Binty Bint has a pretty unique assistant - her ten-year-old daughter Lola. The anonymous graffiti artist started experimenting with graffiti when she was in secondary school and has since forged a career out of her unique-style street art. Unlike other politically charged graffiti artists, Binty Bint is known for her colourful and happy chickens that decorate dustbins, garage doors, houses and playgroups all over the UK. And daughter Lola was instrumental in choosing Binty Bint’s signature chicken. See more of Binty Bint’s work at https://bintybint.com. These two are so talented! Good for them for helping paint a nursery for children! This duo is truly adorable together! Have you ever spotted one of these chickens before? What unique art styles have you seen before? Let us know down in the comments section! Please share this amazing clip with your family and friends as this is one video that should not be missed! Videographer / director: Marcus Hessenberg Producer: Hannah Stevens, Nick Johnson Editor: Sonia Estal

A TEENAGER who suffers from an extremely rare condition means if he falls asleep unassisted - he dies. Liam Derbyshire was born with Ondine’s Curse, officially known as Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, which causes respiratory arrest due to a patient’s lungs not functioning when they are asleep. The condition, which affects less than 1,500 worldwide, means the 17-year-old has to be plugged into a life support machine and watched by a carer every night to keep him alive. Doctors gave Liam just six weeks to live after birth, but later this year the young man from Gosport, South Hampshire, is turning 18 and has truly defied all odds. Videographer / director: Kashfi Halford, Adam Prosser Producer: Danny Baggott, Ryby Coote, Nick Johnson Editor: Sonia Estal

A fiercely confident pole instructor is showing the world that there is no size requirement for sex appeal. Ro’Yale - also known as Da Queen of Curves - started pole dancing after a temporary separation from her husband left her questioning who she really was. After just a few lessons, she knew she had found a lifelong passion and suggested that her studio - Vertical Joes - start offering pole dancing classes for plus size women, but she never expected them to offer the position to her. Videographer / director: John-Paul Steele Producer: Hannah Stevens, Nick Johnson Editor: James Thorne

A six-year-old boy is dedicating his days to becoming the best basketball player around and already has his heart set on the NBA. Jeremiah Barjolo Jr has been playing basketball since he was two-years-old, with his dad teaching him how to bounce a ball with a tennis ball. The Barjolo family has a no-days-off policy when it comes to the sport. Come rain, snow or sunshine, basketball comes first! His dada Jeremiah Sr. was a basketball star in college, while mom Dorothy played tennis. It all started in the kitchen of family’s home, where Sr. would train Jr. in dribbling by using tennis balls. Mom Dorothy says that every day, when Jr. comes back from school, he goes straight to basketball practise with his dad. Training starts at 5 p.m. and they don’t come home until 8 or 9 p.m. on most days. Even Jr. little two-year-old sister is into sports. When the father and son duo go for practise, the mom usually brings her around as well, so that she can bounce a few tennis balls around. Jeremiah Sr. is actually a coach at his own basketball school, but this star pupil gets special attention. And it’s now wonder - the basketball prodigy already owns a collection of basketball trophies. Videographer / director: Brett McGinnes Producer: Hannah Stevens, Nick Johnson Editor: Jack Stevens

MEET Rebekah Bruesehoff - the 10-year-old transgender girl ‘the media warned you about.’ Mum Jamie Bruesehoff, from New Jersey, and her daughter Rebekah are spreading awareness of transgender people one rally at a time. Since her transition started over two years ago, the young girl has been campaigning, attending marches and speaking at rallies to stand up for transgender rights. Videographer / director: Carlos Chiossone Producer: Camile Rocha-Keys, Ruby Coote Editor: Sonia Estal