A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind .

If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .

NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .

Red squirrels are well known for their intelligence and curiosity but when one snapper caught this furry little guy trying to take his own self-portrait he couldn't help but be taken aback .

A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .

HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .

A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .

WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .