Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .

A mum-of-three lost 10 stone after her son asked if she was pregnant .

FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .

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

THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .

The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .

A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .

These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .