Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

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

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

A bear cub unwinds in a forest in eastern Finland by practicing yoga with a series of stretches .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

FLAMINGOS from above look like the pink algae they eat .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .

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

An American man who suffered horrific third-degree burns to 70 percent of his body in a childhood accident has faced his fears by becoming a firefighter .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .