Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .

TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .

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 .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .

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

SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .

CCTV stills of the sickening attack .

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

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

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .