The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

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 .

Meet the Victorian gentleman who could not face sitting next to smelly commuters on the bus - so he dodges danger to go to work on a penny farthing .

A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .

WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

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

A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .

THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .

An artist has NAILED IT by creating beautiful and perfectly precise artwork using a hammer and 30,000 nails .

HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .

FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .