A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .

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 .

A support worker was stunned to discover she was eight months pregnant after she was rushed to hospital with 'stomach cramps' .

A woman has lost an incredible 13st after a group of men cruelly threw a kebab at her as she walked down the street .

WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .

A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .

This daredevil wildebeest tried a walk on the wild side - straight into the snatches of a huge 18 foot crocodile .

CHUCKLING away, this little seal appears to find something hilarious .

A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .

A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .

HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .