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 mum from Gloucestershire has accepted her four-year-old twin son’s decision to live full time as a girl - and is now letting him wear a skirt to school .

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 .

Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .