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

High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith .

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

TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .

A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .

More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .

A mum-of-three lost 10 stone after her son asked if she was pregnant .

A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .

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 woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .