With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

A man has lost an incredible 20st after his addiction to food left him £15k in debt .

NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .

POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .

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

SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .

ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .

A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .

SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

BRITISH kingfishers love to cool off by creating a splash .