A scoliosis sufferer was heartbroken to learn surgery would stop her dancing - but she battled through the pain to complete her GCSE dance exams and earn A* .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .

Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .

A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .

A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - EVANDER HOLYFIELD VISITS SICK KIDS: Evander Holyfield in Birmingham children's hospital, where he was giving presents to sick kids .

A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .

A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .

A mother-of-four has revealed how her daughter tragically took her own life after being subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of her ex-partner .

A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .