A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .

A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .

FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .

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

PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .

High street giant Harvey Nichols has come under fire for a "disgusting" ad campaign that depicts a woman peeing herself .

NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .