A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .

A Canadian woman who is obsessed with all things mythical has had her ears cut and shaped to look like an ELF .

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 .

These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .

A mum-of-two, who was scarred for life in a brutal attack at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, is now urging others to leave their abusive partners .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

AN anorexic woman whose heart stopped after she starved herself to 3st has revealed that ‘dying’ for a minute helped shock her into recovery .

With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .

A mum-of-two has revealed how she accidentally set her face on fire while lighting a cigarette .

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 .