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 baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .

A GLAMOUR model who has spent £22K on cosmetic procedures is hoping that a revolutionary new treatment to give her a designer vagina will end her quest for perfection .

This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .

A first-time mum has told how she was allergic to her unborn baby after she developed an angry red rash all over her body .

MEET the real life sleeping beauty - who snoozed for TWO months when a rare sleep disorder took over her life and turned it into a nightmare .

Housands of cushions handmade as gifts for Olympics athletes may go to waste after London 2012 KNITWITS stitched up volunteers by refusing to allow them to hand them out .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

A woman has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw her baby’s head crowning .

A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .