A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

A woman has taken her house back in time - by spending £10,000 to transform it into her Victorian dream home .

Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .

These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .

Something appears to have tickled this baby owl as he seems to be having a real HOOT .

For years Jeorgia Woodd, 30, abused her body, having succumbed to a condition known as 'diabulimia' .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

WITH THE WIND blowing through their fur, you'll believe a dog can fly in these hilarious images .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

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

Dogs catch waves at the Coronado Bay dog surf championships Saturday 22nd June 2013- DOG SURFING mutts have never looked so gnarly .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .