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 .

STOLEN £2K BULLDOG REUNITED WITH FAMILY VIA TWITTER - A £2,000 bulldog puppy snatched from her home by burglars has been reunited with her family thanks to Twitter .

BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .

SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .

A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

A mum-of-one has revealed how her one-year-old daughter suffered second and third degree burns to 22% of her body after pouring boiling water over herself .