A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks. Five-year-old Ellis Stacey developed a one-in-a-million condition that gripped his body, covering his skin in agonising blisters. Within days, the skin on his face, back, arms and legs had peeled off. His devastated parents, Kayleigh Drayton, 25, and aerospace technician Carl Stacey, 26, were warned that he could die within days as the condition ravaged his body.
A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .
A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
A woman has celebrated the end of her marriage to her unfaithful husband by throwing herself a DIVORCE PARTY .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
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 .