A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .

A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .

DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .

Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

THIS cheeky gorilla tries his best to wriggle free from his mum .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .

FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .

COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .

An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .

This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .