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* .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .

From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

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 .

This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

An adorable black bear cub struggles to find the perfect spot for an afternoon nap as he wriggles around on the branch of a maple tree .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

A transgender woman has revealed how she was able to fund her transformation using £100K gifted to her by online admirers .