A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

A former food addict who had spent her whole life dreaming of romance shed an astonishing 12st 7lbs to experience love for the first time .

POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .

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

CREATED over 60 years ago, this weighty machine was the Photoshop of its time .

Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .

RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .

BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .

Britons have finally received some good news about the weather with temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees this weekend .

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 .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

A diabetic who was addicted to energy drinks has lost 8st after doctors warned her habit was blinding her .