A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind .

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

A mother-of-four has revealed how her daughter was stabbed to death by her ex partner, while their horrified children watched on .

LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .

Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

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 .

A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .

SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .

WOMB STROKE SURVIVOR AMAZES DOCS BY TAKING FIRST STEPS - A little girl who suffered a catastrophic stroke in the womb which would have killed an adult has stunned the medical world by learning to walk, talk and see .

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

AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .