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.
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .