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 who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .

AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .

These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .

A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .

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

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

A medical student has gone from chunky to hunky after being dumped by his ex- girlfriend for being too 'chubby' .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .