STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

Most people have an angel at the top of their Christmas tree, but one bear at Chester Zoo decided he wanted to be the star of the show .

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

Standing on the edge of a never-ending black hole, this is one leap you wouldn't want to make .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

INTIMATELY showcasing personal artefacts from a family's life, this abandoned bungalow has been left to rot for almost a decade .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

A shameless internet troll, who targets young girls online for fun, has slammed victims of cyber-bulling as WEAK .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .

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