Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .

An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .

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 .

AN anorexic woman whose heart stopped after she starved herself to 3st has revealed that ‘dying’ for a minute helped shock her into recovery .

WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .

FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .

The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .

LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .