AN anorexic woman whose heart stopped after she starved herself to 3st has revealed that ‘dying’ for a minute helped shock her into recovery. Rebecca McIntyre, 21, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, became a shadow of her former self after she became addicted to restricting food due to the pressures of her GCSE exams. At her worst, her organs began to fail and she weighed just 3st 6lbs – the weight of an average six-year-old. Doctors battled to save her life after she collapsed at home and her heart stopped. Now fully recovered, Rebecca says that this gave her the wakeup call she needed to seek treatment for her eating disorder.
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
A SHOCKING cartoon of a black man carrying bags saying‘’zippadydoohdah zip-up immigrant bags’ has appeared in a shop window and is being investigated by police .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .