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

FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .

PUCKERING up and enjoying some quality time, these are the most lovable monkeys on the planet .

This Robin Reliant appears to have taken a wrong turn after it ended up 15 feet high up in a TREE .

A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .

LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .

A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .

Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

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 miracle baby has overcome a one-in-five-million brain condition – after a blob of glue saved his life .