The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .

Most people have an angel at the top of their Christmas tree, but one bear at Chester Zoo decided he wanted to be the star of the show .

MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .

Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .

A teenager bullied for having birthmarks all over her body now hopes to become a Hollywood actress to show girls that beauty comes from being unique .

The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .

A woman has taken her house back in time - by spending £10,000 to transform it into her Victorian dream home .

A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

TWIN SISTERS from Australia have taken their sisterly bond to the extreme by spending £150,000 to look IDENTICAL .

WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .