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

An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .

A Zumba-mad grandma has lost almost 14st after becoming addicted to the popular dance craze .

These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .

An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000 .

Puckering up for a kiss, an affectionate pair of owls share a smooch for Valentine's Day .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

A young mum-to-be who was told she would never fall pregnant due to a rare condition has decided to keep her miracle baby even though his birth could leave her paralysed and in pain forever .

THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .