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.
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
Working at a height of 36,000ft, pilots may have the best view in the world .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
A woman has lost an incredible 13st after a group of men cruelly threw a kebab at her as she walked down the street .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
Walking down the street in her local town, heads turn as Jessica Villafane passes by .
COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .