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

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

A young mum-to-be who was told she would never fall pregnant due to a rare condition has decided to keep her miracle baby even though his birth could leave her paralysed and in pain forever .

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

An American man who suffered horrific third-degree burns to 70 percent of his body in a childhood accident has faced his fears by becoming a firefighter .

Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .

This artist had a lot of bottle to re-create a masterpiece painted with nothing but 24 litres of cola .

A woman has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw her baby’s head crowning .

THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .

A transgender model, who has spent £180k on surgery to become a ‘desirable’ woman, has told of her struggle to find a man who is openly accepting of trans-women .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .