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 .

A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .

Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .

A young makeup artist has hit back at vile internet trolls who dubbed her a 'swamp creature' and 'ugly' for exposing her troubled skin in online makeup tutorials .

Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .

When Louise Steen walked down the aisle, she imagined a perfect future with her older hubby – but her life would soon become a living hell .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .

STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .