A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks. Five-year-old Ellis Stacey developed a one-in-a-million condition that gripped his body, covering his skin in agonising blisters. Within days, the skin on his face, back, arms and legs had peeled off. His devastated parents, Kayleigh Drayton, 25, and aerospace technician Carl Stacey, 26, were warned that he could die within days as the condition ravaged his body.
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .