If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

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 .

This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .

A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .

PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .

A woman who was addicted to eating curries has shed an impressive 8st after giving up her favourite food .

A woman who was cruelly called ‘tumour girl’ by bullies has finally found love .

Commuters were put in a HOLE lot of trouble after trains were cancelled by a hole created by BADGERS .

An American man continues on his mission to document his journey around the globe by completing a world map tattoo on his back .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .