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 .

THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .

A five-week-old newborn from Fife has become the UK’s youngest beauty pageant baby .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .

WOMB STROKE SURVIVOR AMAZES DOCS BY TAKING FIRST STEPS - A little girl who suffered a catastrophic stroke in the womb which would have killed an adult has stunned the medical world by learning to walk, talk and see .

This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .

A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .

AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .