A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .

A woman whose daughter committed suicide after being raped as a child, has revealed she donated her organs - saving four peoples’ lives .

A survivor of abuse has bravely waived her anonymity to tell how she was sexually assaulted from the age of nine - by her depraved grandad .

LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

A ROAD KILL munching Scot has chewed on everything from a dead squirrel to an unlucky crow – all in the name of art .

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .

WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .