A good samaritan who came to the aid of a rape victim has told how they were turned away from the Salvation Army because "they only help men" .

Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

Court case starts today at Birmingham Crown Court .

STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .

This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .

COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .

SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .

FOR TWO memory-impaired parents their new-born baby Cian is a living timekeeper .

ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .

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