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.
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .