WIDE EYED with a huge smile across her face, this little elephant is a picture of happiness .

THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .

A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .

These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .

She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

A reformed boozer, who spent nine months partying in Magaluf, has shed over 6 stone after ditching her ladette lifestyle to become a fitness fanatic .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

A woman has revealed how she was left scarred for life after accidentally falling into a bonfire at a friend’s BBQ .

A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .