A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .

A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .

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

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 .

A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .