A care worker who broke her spine after jumping from a window to escape a sex attack at the hands of a resident has called for tougher safety measures to protect care staff .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .

A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .

Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .

A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .

This brave Hyena finally catches his pray among the thousands of flamingos, Lake Nakuru, Kenya - OUTNUMBERED among thousands of flamingos, this bold hyena is not put off from hunting for a morning snack .

The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

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

TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .