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

A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .

Here’s a pair of shoes that really are fit for a princess, and with a price tag of more than £276,000, they are the most expensive shoes in the world .

A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .

Meet the sisters who have both been diagnosed with a one in 3 .

BRITISH kingfishers love to cool off by creating a splash .

This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .

Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .