MEET the real life sleeping beauty - who snoozed for TWO months when a rare sleep disorder took over her life and turned it into a nightmare .

SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .

Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .

CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .

A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .

SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .

AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .

WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .