A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .

A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .

Say cheese! This cheeky chappy isn’t in the mood to live up to his scary reputation as he is pictured here cracking a killer smile as he goes about his daily business .

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 .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

A little boy whose brain grew inside his nose has been described as the 'real-life Pinocchio' by his proud mum .

A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .

NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .

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

A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .