A 17-year-old silver crested cockatoo has reportedly adopted few eggs, which her owner Geoff Grewcock bought them as Easter gifts for friends and family. Pippa is not allowing anyone to touch her eggs, which she has started trying to hatch and when anyone attempts to come near to her eggs, she starts squawking and flapping her wings in violence.

A 23-month-old toddler in Britain will never grow up. Alex Connerty, who is only 2ft 4in, is the only primordial dwarf in Britain and is fated to spend his adult life standing less than 3ft tall. Primordial dwarfism is a rare form of dwarfism that results in a smaller body size in all stages of life beginning from before birth. It is estimated that there are only 100 individuals in the world's history who have had the disorder, 40 of them in the U. S. It is unlikely that sufferers of primordial dwarfism will live past the age of 30.

A pair of paintings discovered by Britain's Queen Elizabeth while spring cleaning have been confirmed as authentic Caravaggios worth $134 million. The queen unearthed two works by the Baroque painter after deciding to dust off some old pieces of art for Buckingham Palace exhibition. Her findings were initially dismissed as imitations, but, after further investigation, the two pieces - "Boy Peeling Fruit" and "The Calling of Saint Peter and Andrew" - have been confirmed as the genuine article.

In the first order by a British court of its kind, a 24-year-old man has been ordered to wear a fluorescent jacket when he ventures out at night. The man, Stephen Cooper, pleaded guilty to voyeurism in a British court after he confessed to peeking into a woman's window on the night of Jan. 11. Judge Peter Dedman of the Southend Crown Court ordered him to wear a jacket until his final sentencing in May.

A man claiming to be the love child of Britain's Princess Margaret will take his claim to London's High Court on Tuesday. Robert Brown - a 52-year-old accountant from Jersey - insists he was born following an affair between the late princess and a man she was once in love with, Group Captain Peter Townsend, making him Queen Elizabeth's illegitimate nephew.