A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral. Niamh Wynne, 18, from Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, developed a deadly obsession with calories after learning about them in a GCSE biology lesson. The then-overweight teenager soon became addicted to counting calories and over the next three years shed an astonishing 7st 7lb. At her worst, she weighed just 7st 6lb. A doctor warned her that she would either end up 'in hospital or in a coffin', so her devastated mum began planning her funeral. Now fully recovered, the carer says that almost dying gave her the wakeup call she needed to overcome anorexia.
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
If you tune into primetime coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games, you’re most likely going to see London’s new Aquatic Center from many angles as athletes from all around the globe compete for the top spot on the podium .
Enjoying life’s little pleasures is something that many struggle to do .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .