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* .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .

HIDING behind its flipper, this little seal comes over a little camera shy .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

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

Britons have finally received some good news about the weather with temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees this weekend .

SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .

For years Jeorgia Woodd, 30, abused her body, having succumbed to a condition known as 'diabulimia' .

TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .

AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .

A mum-of-one has revealed how her one-year-old daughter suffered second and third degree burns to 22% of her body after pouring boiling water over herself .

LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .