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

A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .

Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

Working at a height of 36,000ft, pilots may have the best view in the world .

Most women would jump at the chance to put on some lipstick, sling on a pair of heels and head out for a romantic meal with their other half .

INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

A reformed boozer, who spent nine months partying in Magaluf, has shed over 6 stone after ditching her ladette lifestyle to become a fitness fanatic .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

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 .

Several times a year, Gemma, 21, can be found mumbling her words and struggling to concentrate as she walks around in a dream-like state .