A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .

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 .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .

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 .

SAT happily on the branch of a tree, this little frog appears unfazed by a surprise visitor .

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

The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .

An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .

A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .

A woman who was addicted to GREGGS has lost 9st after giving up her favourite food .