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.
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THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
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THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
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An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
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A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .