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 .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .

One sheepdog is taking a well-deserved rest after giving birth to a whole WHEELBARROW-FUL of puppies .

THIS caring wallaby shares her lunch with a hungry pigeon .

THIS is the awesome moment an Osprey catches its prey travelling at 50mph, giving new meaning to FAST FOOD .

A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .

A TSUNAMI of predatory fish gather for their annual hunt .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .

A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .