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

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

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .

Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .

A TSUNAMI of predatory fish gather for their annual hunt .

THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .

Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

JUMPING and bouncing off one another, these young cheetahs enjoy some harmless fun .

A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .

LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .

A scorned woman sparked a punch-up in an airport after she caught her copper boyfriend returning from a romantic holiday with a female police officer .