A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .

Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .

Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .

Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .

FLAMINGOS from above look like the pink algae they eat .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .

Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .

INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .

SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .