A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her. While most children dream of a white Christmas, eight-year-old Lola Dyer, dreads the chilly days. The schoolgirl suffers from a condition called cold urticaria and being outside for just a few minutes leaves her with painful rashes all over her body. The allergy is so bad it has even landed her in hospital after she developed breathing difficulties.
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .
Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
A mother-of-four has revealed how, like the Beckhams, she’s added an outside toilet to her home .