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 .

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 .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .

AN UNEMPLOYED factory worker has proved his immunity to snake venom by letting a deadly mamba bite his bare arm .

A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .

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

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .

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

SPARKLING bright inside their box, it’s hard to believe these diamonds are made from the cremated remains of the deceased .

A mum from Gloucestershire has accepted her four-year-old twin son’s decision to live full time as a girl - and is now letting him wear a skirt to school .