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

A former obese woman has told how she lost 19st, but was so terrified of gaining weight that she ended up developing an eating disorder .

THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .

The sun is finally out, bringing a smile to many people’s faces – including this cute little dormouse’s! Grinning from ear to ear, this tiny dormouse appears to have been tickled by something as it clambered up this flower, basking in the sunshine, whilst having a little laugh to himself .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

THIS cheeky gorilla tries his best to wriggle free from his mum .