WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .

HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .

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

FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .

Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .

FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .

TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A BLIND school-girl whose growth has been stunted by a rare medical condition is finding her feet again with the help of a specially made mini-cane .

Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .

A former obese woman has told how she lost 19st, but was so terrified of gaining weight that she ended up developing an eating disorder .