Several times a year, Gemma, 21, can be found mumbling her words and struggling to concentrate as she walks around in a dream-like state .

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

A support worker was stunned to discover she was eight months pregnant after she was rushed to hospital with 'stomach cramps' .

She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .

A miracle baby has overcome a one-in-five-million brain condition – after a blob of glue saved his life .

CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

A scorned woman sparked a punch-up in an airport after she caught her copper boyfriend returning from a romantic holiday with a female police officer .