A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .

An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

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

Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .

Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .

A survivor of abuse has bravely waived her anonymity to tell how she was sexually assaulted from the age of nine - by her depraved grandad .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .