Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside. Alone at home, the 24-year-old hid behind drawn curtains and refused to answer the phone. It had been days since she'd ventured out to see her mates and even the sight of a new text had her on edge. For months, Rebecca was a nervous wreck - all because of her ex-boyfriend.
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .