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

A former waitress who quit serving tables to become a professional Britney lookalike has told how her incredible likeness has earned her £300,000 as a full time doppelganger .

Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .

A Romanian woman is celebrating her new job as a knife-thrower’s assistant after leaving her family behind to move to the UK .

A former food addict who had spent her whole life dreaming of romance shed an astonishing 12st 7lbs to experience love for the first time .

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

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

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .

SPARKLING bright inside their box, it’s hard to believe these diamonds are made from the cremated remains of the deceased .

For years Jeorgia Woodd, 30, abused her body, having succumbed to a condition known as 'diabulimia' .