A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots. Sara Joel, 45, from Long Island in New York, began performing the stunts whilst pregnant with her first child - son Desmond, now nine. Since then, the professional dancer and former Cirque du Soleil performer has celebrated each of her pregnancies with a wacky performance.
A teenage girl has grown back her entire face after being struck down by a rare skin disease .
The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .
A woman has lost an incredible 13st after a group of men cruelly threw a kebab at her as she walked down the street .
Sunny Saap, 27, from Columbia, Missouri, United States, enjoys life with her two boyfriends .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
A little boy whose brain grew inside his nose has been described as the 'real-life Pinocchio' by his proud mum .
A psychology student from California looks so much like Game of Thrones' Jon Snow that he is mobbed by fans of the fantasy show .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .