AN expectant mum suffered crippling contractions lasting a gruelling two months, due to complications from a rare condition .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

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

JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .

SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .

TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .

Walking down the street in her local town, heads turn as Jessica Villafane passes by .

When Louise Steen walked down the aisle, she imagined a perfect future with her older hubby – but her life would soon become a living hell .

Growing up, Jasmine Price, now four, loved watching her older sister, Mia Price, now 10, compete in beauty pageants .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

A transgender woman has beaten the bullies after spending £25K on surgery to become a beauty pageant queen .

Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .