In April 2018, Lourdes Cuello, 50, from New Jersey, US, was making a cup of tea when her hair and hoodie caught fire on her gas stove. She suffered third-degree burns to her neck, chest, left shoulder and armpit and was hospitalised for six weeks. During that time, she endured two skin grafts surgeries and had to relearn how to walk. Over six years on, Lourdes can't drive due to the lack of mobility in her neck, and she never uses the stove when she's home alone. Thankfully, she has otherwise recovered well.
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
WITH a paw in the air and his tongue hanging from his mouth, it is clear to see that this little groundhog is struggling to wake up and leave behind the comfort of his burrow .
Pic By Graham Gibson/ HotSpot Media - SHARK HYPNOTIST BALANCES SHARK IN PALM OF HIS HAND- In Pic - Diver Tom and Caribbean reef sharks in the Bahamas- A SHARK hypnotist balances these predators in the palm of his hand by sending them to sleep with a gentle nose rub .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .