Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

A woman whose daughter committed suicide after being raped as a child, has revealed she donated her organs - saving four peoples’ lives .

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

A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .

A mother-to be has told how she cannot go near an iPad in case she suffers another miscarriage due to her intense sensitivity to electromagnetic waves .

Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .

Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .

A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .

A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .

THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .

A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .

A couple have got engaged after the bride-to-be’s boyfriend set her a Facebook ‘likes’ challenge .