Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

A woman has told how she saved the life of her own rapist after he overdosed on pills shortly after attacking her .

WOMB STROKE SURVIVOR AMAZES DOCS BY TAKING FIRST STEPS - A little girl who suffered a catastrophic stroke in the womb which would have killed an adult has stunned the medical world by learning to walk, talk and see .

This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .

Amanda Bohm, 22, and her mum, Janet, 58, were the best of friends .

A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .

A British diver has set a new world record for the longest warm water scuba dive by spending a mammoth 49 hours and 56 minutes under water .

SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .

THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .

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 .

JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .