A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia. Kayleigh-Emma Shiel, 30, has always dreamed of becoming a mother, but suffers from tokophobia – a fear of childbirth. Her condition means that she is unable to conceive a child of her own as she is too terrified of pregnancy and the associated pain. Believing that adoption was her only chance of becoming a mother, Kayleigh and her fabricator husband Gary, 47, applied to adopt a child in January this year. But the couple, from Elland, West Yorkshire, were rejected partly due to Kayleigh’s unusual phobia.
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
A SHOCKING cartoon of a black man carrying bags saying‘’zippadydoohdah zip-up immigrant bags’ has appeared in a shop window and is being investigated by police .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .