High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith .

A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .

WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .

IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .

This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .