A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind .

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

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

A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .

A little boy was left fighting for his life in hospital after a horrific allergic reaction to epilepsy medication made his skin fall off in chunks .

BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .

A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .

A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .

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

Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .

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 .

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