A young mum-to-be who was told she would never fall pregnant due to a rare condition has decided to keep her miracle baby even though his birth could leave her paralysed and in pain forever .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .

HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .

SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

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

These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

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

THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .

A woman has revealed how cruel bullies taunted her daily at school, calling her names like 'pig nose' and 'no nose' .

A mother has spoken of her outrage after discovering her missing cat had been stolen - only to be told she cannot have its location due to the Data Protection Act .