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 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .

Meet mother of four, Jackie Wright, whose bizarre fear means she is terrified of HOLES .

A shoe designer from London has spent a whopping £30,000 on Hello Kitty memorabilia .

DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .

FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .

THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .

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 .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .