AS graffiti goes, this giant mural of a sweet little girl tenderly watering a tree beneath her is a far cry from what you usually see emblazoned across cities. Natalia Rak, 27, spent a staggering 70 hours painting the 20 metre high work of art, while perching on a mechanical lift for hours on end for a week. The larger than life painting shows a young girl dressed in traditional Polish clothes and standing on her tip toes as she tips the watering can onto the tree below.
A mum-of-two, who was scarred for life in a brutal attack at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, is now urging others to leave their abusive partners .
After Leigh Hancock, 36, joined Fallon Bramall's boxing gym she owned with her husband, the pair took him under their wing .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .