PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .

Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .

Thousands of people are gathering at a stadium in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela .

A Hereford woman has lost 10st 3lbs after ditching her £260-a-month takeaway habit .

A support worker was stunned to discover she was eight months pregnant after she was rushed to hospital with 'stomach cramps' .

SKIPPING on the spot, an adorable little owl embraces the 'running man' challenge .

VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .

At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .

A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .