A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .

From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .

A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .

Growing up, Jasmine Price, now four, loved watching her older sister, Mia Price, now 10, compete in beauty pageants .

A medical student has gone from chunky to hunky after being dumped by his ex- girlfriend for being too 'chubby' .

A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .

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

A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .