A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .

Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .

When Janet Curry, 38, was told she was ‘too big to date’ by a man she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish, she didn’t let it stop her from looking for love .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .

The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .

A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

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

WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .