Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .

A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .

While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .

DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .

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 .

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .

A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .

IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .

A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .