AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .

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 .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .

A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .

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

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

A mother-of-one has revealed how a neighbour’s friend ‘mauled’ her face, leaving her scarred for life .

A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .