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A pair of British photographers spent weeks following orangutans observing similarities between the behaviours of the primates and humans.

The incredible collection gives an intimate and heartwarming insight into how human-like the apes’ behave is as they go about their daily business.

Some of the images capture the tender relationship between a mother and her newborn baby called Siswi. Fiona Rogers and Anup Shah from Watford, Hertfordshire, captured these fascinating scenes in Tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo, Indonesia.

In one, the doting female appears to smile as she gently cradles a dozing Siswi in her arms, while another shows her protectively looking on as the youngster plays with a leaf.

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A mother found pornographic photos on a new computer she bought for her young children.

Mother finds pornographic photos and erotic literature on new computer bought as Christmas present for children
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:34 PM on 12th November 2011

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A mother found pornographic photos on a new computer she bought for her young children.

Sarah Cairns purchased two tablet-style computers from a store in Preston, Lancashire, as a Christmas present for Maisey, eight, and Rio, seven.

However, the 30-year-old said when she clicked into a programme on one of the computers, she found dozens of explicit images of women and erotic literature. Support worker Sarah said: ‘Maisey and Rio like going on the CBeebies website and listening to music.

‘Because the computers were only £60, I said I’d take two of them. While they were out at school, I thought I would have a look to see what they were like. \

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Big internet hit after friend videos the ambush

This is the moment a mother chased a wheel-clamper with a bucket of porridge, vegetables and food colouring before hurling it over the seats of his van.

A friend recorded Julia Hazel’s fury when she was charged £205 to free her son’s car after he had allegedly left it for two minutes to obtain change for a parking meter.

Ms Hazel, 48, was later ordered to pay £60 compensation to clamping firm City Watch. But the film of her revenge last month in Cosham, Portsmouth, has become a success on YouTube, attracting 3,300 hits. She said: ‘I don’t regret it because I believe I was sticking up for everyone who has been affected by the clampers.

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Armed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of ‘moral deviation and adultery’, according to reports.

The killing happened on Thursday in the Khawaja Hakim area of Ghazni city, the BBC reported, and two men have now been arrested.

Officials – who blamed the Taliban for the attack – told the Corporation that armed men went into the house where the two women lived, took them to the yard outside and they were stoned and then shot. ‘Neighbours did not help or inform the authorities on time,’ an official told the BBC.

A neighbour of the executed women told M&G.com he heard shots but was afraid to go out.

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A mother has been accused of deliberately starving her newborn baby to death.

Jessica Nicole Bradford was arrested after the mummified remains of her baby were found inside a school where she worked.

The 23 year old is alleged to have abandoned her baby in a vacant building on the campus of the school for troubled teens. The baby lived for four days before dying from lack of food and water.

Police said Bradford kept the pregnancy secret from her family and boyfriend of the last three years in Whitmore, California.

Bradford told police she did not give the baby girl a name as she did not want to feel attached to it

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On Armistice Day, the heartbreaking story of the biggest loss by a British family in the Great War

The moment Amy Beechey saw the envelope with a French postmark she feared the worst. Sent from a military hospital in Rouen, dated December 29, 1917, it brought the news she had been dreading.

Her son, 36-year-old Rifleman Leonard Beechey, wounded and gassed at the battle of Cambrai a month earlier, had died of his wounds. Tetanus set in and the doctors could do nothing to save him.

He would, the chaplain told his mother, be buried in Rouen, far from the Lincolnshire countryside where he and his seven brothers had grown up, together with five sisters (a sixth sister had died aged five).

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As Minhaj Gedi Farah lay silently on a hospital bed three months ago, even his mother had given up hope that the skeletal Somali baby would live.

But weeks of intensive feeding, though, have transformed him into a chubby-cheeked boy who crawls.

He is one of several stories highlighted in an annual New York fundraising event held by the aid group International Rescue Committee, which helped nurse Minhaj back to health. At seven-months-old Minhaj was admitted to the International Rescue Committee’s hospital in the Dadaab refugee complex in July

Minhaj’s emaciated little body was shown in media throughout the world and came to signify the plight of thousands of refugee children fleeing famine-devastated Somalia.

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Mother saves son, 3, from accessing £750,000 inheritance ‘too soon’

Judge agrees there could be a ‘realistic possibility of exploitation’
Mother praised for giving up her claim to inheritance. Worried mother Ellen Wright has persuaded a judge to delay her three-year-old son from accessing his late father’s £750,000 inheritance after arguing that the money could corrupt him during his teenager years.

Toddler Rory Greenstreet had been due to inherit £750,000 on his 18th birthday from the estate of his late father Kieran.

But he will now have to wait an extra seven years when he turns 25.

His 42-year-old mother told a judge her son should be prevented from inheriting the six-figure sum at 18 as the money would corrupt him.

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Mucky pups leave dirty marks. But who’d have known that banana would be so hard to get out of clothes? Amy Fleming manages the stains that motherhood, ahem, throws up

I went to a family do at the weekend. I had to look smart for lunch and the baby’s routine would be interrupted, so it was likely that I’d need to placate exasperated mid-meal yelps by lifting himself out of the high chair for a mucky cuddle. This may sound odd but my staple outfit for such an event is a demure, patterned dress. Over the years, I have amassed a selection of such items; Muccia Prada may have made the 1940s tea dress the ultimate frock du jour, but pretty retro frocks (30s, 40s and 50s style) have hardly been out of fashion this century; think Kate Moss’ Poppy dress from her inaugural Topshop collection in 2007, and Pearl Lowe removing any hint of prissiness from her trademark tea dresses by adding khol eyes, opaque tights and vampish accessories.

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An appeal has been made to trace a four-year-old girl abducted by her father who told the child’s mother she “would never see her again”.

Solicitors want information about Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson so she can be reunited with her mother, Gemma Wilkinson.

Ms Wilkinson, a former charity worker in her 30s, from Greater Manchester, has not seen Atiya for two years.

Atiya, who will be five on Monday, was abducted by former insurance salesman Razwan Ali Anjum.

Lawyers representing Ms Wilkinson, who is from Ashton-Under-Lyne, said she took legal action in an attempt to force Anjum to reveal Atiya’s whereabouts.

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Britain’s oldest first-time mother has said an age limit should be set for women wanting IVF treatment after admitting struggling to bring up a child in her sixties.

Susan Tollefsen became a mother after receiving IVF treatment at 57 from a Russian clinic in 2008, where she conceived daughter Freya.
Many criticised her decision, saying she was too old to become a parent.
At the time, Mrs Tollefsen defended her choice and pointed out that her partner Nick Mayer was 11 years her junior – and would therefore be around to care for their daughter Freya during all of her childhood.
However, she says the couple have now split and concedes her critics were right as she encounters the difficulties of bringing up a three-year-old child alone at the age of 61.
Mrs Tollefsen, who is deaf in one ear and having a knee replaced, also agrees that, with hindsight, there should be an age limit of 50 for IVF treatment for women in this country.

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