A mum-of-two has revealed how she accidentally set her face on fire while lighting a cigarette. Louise Tanner, 50, from Worthing, West Sussex, couldn’t find a lighter, so decided to use the hob instead. But as she leaned over, her hair, which was caked in hairspray, instantly went up in flames. Louise was left with third degree burns on her head, face, ear and neck and has been left scarred for life.
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
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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 .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
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PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .