A miracle baby born with half-a-heart will make this Mother's Day extra special for her mum - as she was given just 24 hours to live .

A BLIND school-girl whose growth has been stunted by a rare medical condition is finding her feet again with the help of a specially made mini-cane .

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

Red squirrels are well known for their intelligence and curiosity but when one snapper caught this furry little guy trying to take his own self-portrait he couldn't help but be taken aback .

EXTRAORDINARY elephants create beautiful paintings in Thailand .

A restaurant famed for creating the 3lb cheeseburger has unveiled its latest culinary challenge – the largest chilli cheese hotdog in Europe .

JUMPING and bouncing off one another, these young cheetahs enjoy some harmless fun .

LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .

GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .