Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground. Wearing her leopard print skirt and sparkly pink tights, six year-old Maci's big personality still commands the room- despite the 18-24 months label. The tiny school girl stands at just 99cm tall and weighs less than two stone - the same size as a toddler. Maci, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, suffers from a rare genetic condition called Russell-Silver Syndrome, a form of primordial dwarfism that affects 1 in 100,000 babies.
An adorable rescue dog who had her eyes gouged out by thugs in Romania has found a loving home in the UK .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
STANDING on its hind legs, a nosey polar bear presses its paws against the window of a truck and takes a peek at the tourist inside .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
A personal trainer who was dumped over a life-changing sleep disorder has finally found love .
Pictures of John Anslow a prisoner who escaped from a prison escort van in North Worcestershire Monday, 23 January .
A woman who starved herself to look like Cheryl Cole has told how she shrunk to just under 5st 13lbs after developing anorexia .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
A woman has been left scarred for life after a botched eye lift burnt her eyelids .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
Sunny Saap, 27, from Columbia, Missouri, United States, enjoys life with her two boyfriends .