When mum-of-three Becky Tully was told she couldn’t have any more children due to health reasons, she refused to give up on having the little girl she had always wanted .

JUMPING and bouncing off one another, these young cheetahs enjoy some harmless fun .

BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .

A bear cub unwinds in a forest in eastern Finland by practicing yoga with a series of stretches .

A woman has been left unable to smile after undergoing emergency surgery to remove infected lip fillers .

A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .

Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .

A good samaritan who came to the aid of a rape victim has told how they were turned away from the Salvation Army because "they only help men" .

A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

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 .

FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .

Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .