A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

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 .

A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .

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

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

HOTSPOT MEDIA - BEAUTY QUEEN ACID SCARE: Miss England finalist, Karla Fitzpatrick, 19, at the Miss England contest .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .

SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .