REAL-'Vampire' woman gets ‘horns’ implanted

Maria Hose Cristerna, a mum of four from Mexico, showed off her unusual looks at a tattoo exhibition in Monterrey in California recently.She had her body transformed as a reaction to enduring years of abuse at home. The striking look is completed by specially shaped vampire 'fang' teeth, fake eye colours and massive earrings – but she's not finished yet! The 35-year-old claims that she wants even more horns implanted.'Tattoos were a form of liberation for me – my way of being immortal - and the horns I have are a symbol of strength and were implanted without anaesthetic,' she told The Sun.

'I had the fangs done because I loved vampires as a little girl and I changed the colour of my eyes so they were how I really wanted them to be.'

Scissors left in woman's stomach for three years by bungling surgeons

Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil.But doctors dismissed her complaints that something was wrong until she collapsed in agony years later and this X ray revealed the truth.A spokesman for the Sao Paulo medical council said: 'There was damage to her intestine and her other ovary, which had to be removed. We are investigating.'

Horse dreams dashed, German teen turns to cow Luna

When Regina Mayer's parents dashed her hopes of getting a horse, the resourceful 15-year-old didn't sit in her room and sulk. Instead, she turned to a cow called Luna to make her riding dreams come true.