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.
BEAUTIFULLY lit by the dim glow of lanterns, a cave in Iceland is transformed into the perfect wedding venue .
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 .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .