A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .

An adorable rescue dog who had her eyes gouged out by thugs in Romania has found a loving home in the UK .

A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .

A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .

The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .

Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .

Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

Meet mother of four, Jackie Wright, whose bizarre fear means she is terrified of HOLES .

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

WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .