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 photographer has transformed women with alopecia into stunning sirens - showing that bald is beautiful .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
When Louise Steen walked down the aisle, she imagined a perfect future with her older hubby – but her life would soon become a living hell .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
Standing on the edge of a never-ending black hole, this is one leap you wouldn't want to make .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .