A teenager bullied for having birthmarks all over her body now hopes to become a Hollywood actress to show girls that beauty comes from being unique .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .

MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .

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

ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .

A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .