Oday she is a picture of health - a happy, smiling child, enjoying life to the full.But less than 18 months ago little Kaiya Jackson was clinging to life in a hospital bed, rigged up to countless wires and bravely battling a deadly brain bug.Kaiya, now two, spent her first Christmas in hospital after a severe case of bacterial meningitis ravaged her body and doctors were forced to remove all of her fingers and her right foot just to give her a chance of life again.Then last Christmas, it was reported how little Kaiya was able to enjoy a festive meal for the first time ever using specially adapted cutlery that attaches to her wrist.Now, the determined tot is making new strides after receiving her first prosthetic leg - and her first ever pair of walking shoes.
Commuters were put in a HOLE lot of trouble after trains were cancelled by a hole created by BADGERS .
Walking down the street in her local town, heads turn as Jessica Villafane passes by .
SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .
A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .