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 .

This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .

FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .

A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .

A bear cub unwinds in a forest in eastern Finland by practicing yoga with a series of stretches .

A Canadian photographer has captured crystal clear mirror images of Toronto's architecture reflected in puddles - simply by using his iPhone .

With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .