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 nine year old girl nearly lost her leg after doctors initially misdiagnosed her bone cancer as a pulled muscle .

An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .

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

LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .

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* .

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

Ashlee, 20, has always known that she was supposed to be a girl .