Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

AN underground HOBBIT motel inspired by JRR Tolkien is just one of the unique places to stay at the world's most unusual hotel complex .

WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .

Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .

An artist has NAILED IT by creating beautiful and perfectly precise artwork using a hammer and 30,000 nails .

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 .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .

WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .

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

A woman who was cruelly called ‘tumour girl’ by bullies has finally found love .

An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .