This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .

HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .

A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .

FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .

SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .

A little boy aged FIVE bravely delivered his newborn brother - then promptly saved his life .

WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .