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

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .

A professional dancer has embraced her individuality after refusing plastic surgery to remove a giant birthmark on her face .

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .

Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .

BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .

A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .

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

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .