A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .

A former takeaway addict, who once weighed 20st, has lost over 8st in a bid to ditch her ‘fat sister’ tag .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .

MEET the real life sleeping beauty - who snoozed for TWO months when a rare sleep disorder took over her life and turned it into a nightmare .

A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .

This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .