From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .

She was recently named Best Dressed Woman in a new list and is regarded as one of the most stylish women in the world .

A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .

WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .

Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .

INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .

Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .

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

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .