N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

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 .

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

A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .

Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

From a platter of finger licking chicken wings to a bowl of Chinese noodle soup, these foodie snaps are enough to make your savoury saliva glands drool .

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

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

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .

A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .