AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

It’s the must-have for any true Disney fan: a Little Mermaid themed wedding .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .

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 .

A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .

SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .

THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .

BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .

An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .