An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs. Despite receiving the meningitis C vaccination as a baby, Kye Vincent was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia earlier this year on Mother’s Day, just six days after his baby sister, Layla was born. The deadly illness ravaged his body and medics were forced to induce him into a coma to give him the best chance of survival. Thankfully, the plucky youngster has battled against the odds and is looking forward to spending Christmas with his family in his new adapted home.
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
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