A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .

SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

From the crisp, snow clad mountains to vivid bright blue rivers, these breath-taking photographs capture the incredible beauty of various landscapes across France and Italy .

THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .

A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .

A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

A five-week-old newborn from Fife has become the UK’s youngest beauty pageant baby .

MEET the painter who makes his living squirting paint from his EYES .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .