A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

AS graffiti goes, this giant mural of a sweet little girl tenderly watering a tree beneath her is a far cry from what you usually see emblazoned across cities .

TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .

An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .

A mum-of-two, who was scarred for life in a brutal attack at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, is now urging others to leave their abusive partners .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .

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 .

This artist had a lot of bottle to re-create a masterpiece painted with nothing but 24 litres of cola .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

A medical student has gone from chunky to hunky after being dumped by his ex- girlfriend for being too 'chubby' .

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .