The heart that grew back: 'Miracle' of girl whose heart healed itself after a third was removed in emergency operation

Aged four months, Kirsty Collier lay dying on the operating table with a serious heart defect.Her surgeon had tried his best to correct the problem but thought the organ was so badly damaged that there was no hope.As a last-ditch attempt to save Kirsty's life, he decided to cut away a third of her heart, enlarged because of her condition, in case that restarted it.And against all the odds, it once again began to beat....

Is this the most fun job in the world? The man that travels the world testing holiday resort waterslides

Surely the envy of any desk-bound office worker, Tommy Lynch has travelled over 27,000 miles this year, for his job testing holiday resort waterslides.Mr Lynch, 29, works for holiday giant First Choice, checking the height, speed, water quantity and landing of the flumes, as well as all safety aspects.He said: 'I do have the best job in the world. No-one believes me when I tell them what I do.'Some people sit in an office...

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A pair of white lion cubs make their wobbly world debut

A pair of rare white lion cubs have taken their first shaky steps in public just a day after they were born.Video footage showed one bravely squeaking and wobbling across the enclosure until he was rescued by his mother. She deftly picked them up in her teeth and took them to a sheltered spot to suckle.The two youngsters were born to parents Vambo and Kiara at Belgrade Zoo. White cubs are extremely rare because both...

Saturn's largest moon has 'active ice volcanoes'

Saturn's largest moon may have active ice volcanoes that spew ammonia and methane instead of lava, scientists say.The international Cassini spacecraft took radar images that point recent to liquid flows on the surface of Titan.The findings suggest the moon could contain active 'Cryovolcanoes', or icy volcanoes.Rosaly Lopes, a Cassini radar team scientist, said: 'Cryovolcanoes are some of the most intriguing features...

Shaggy the antler-free reindeer gets an early Christmas present - a toupee

When Shaggy the reindeer lost his antlers he seemed destined to lose his job as the chief sleigh puller.But rather than taking a place and the back of the herd, the two-year-old has been restored to his former glory thanks to this specially made reindeer toupee.Owner Trevor Hill, 41, who takes his eight reindeer on trips to schools and special events, said the children would always ask where Shaggy's antlers were.So...

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Scientists uncover 1,224 different species in first ever inventory of life at the poles

The world's first inventory of sea and land animals around a group of freezing Antarctic islands has uncovered some 1,224 species, it was revealed today.A team from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg spent seven weeks on board the research vessel RRS James Clark Ross studying life on the South Orkney Islands, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.The survey - which saw experts combing the land,...

I am the Walrus... and I play the sax: Sara the jazz musician wows her audience

She's not too fond of scales. Except the kind that are on her midday meal of fish.But Sara the walrus still does her music practice every day, under the watchful eye of her Russian trainer Sergiy.Gripping the instrument firmly between her flippers, she blasts out a note loud enough to make her whiskers vibrate. The musical mammal has become the main attraction at her home, the newly-opened Istanbul Dolphinarium.Sara...

The picture perfect storm: Photographs capture the terrifying beauty of clouds gathering over Greenland

These incredible photographs look more like a scene from the end of the world than a winter sunrise.The dramatic pictures were taken in north west Greenland by British Arctic photographers Bryan and Cherry Alexander. The award-winning photographic pair were staying in the Inuit community of Qaanaaq, about 800 miles from the North Pole, when the apocalyptic cloud colouring began over Inglefield Bay.'It was just before...

As the humble computer mouse turns 40, is it finally heading for the exit door?

It rose from humble beginnings to become an essential piece of computer hardware.But as the computer mouse turns 40, there are signs that it could finally be heading for the big electronic scrapheap in the sky.When Doug Engelbart's team at the Stanford Research Institute designed a computer controller encased in a carved-out wooden block, with wheels mounted on the underbelly, one researcher nicknamed it a 'mouse'.But...