A scoliosis sufferer was heartbroken to learn surgery would stop her dancing - but she battled through the pain to complete her GCSE dance exams and earn A* .

Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .

An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .

A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .

Something appears to have tickled this baby owl as he seems to be having a real HOOT .

A terrifying prankster has given unsuspecting urban explorers the fright of their lives .

A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

A woman was diagnosed with cancer after a cyst left her so bloated medics were convinced she was pregnant .

For years Jeorgia Woodd, 30, abused her body, having succumbed to a condition known as 'diabulimia' .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .