BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .

DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .

SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .

A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

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 .

A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .

A woman has revealed how she left her husband of 24 years, after falling in love with a man, 18 years her junior .