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 .

Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .

A former soldier who bravely took on penny-pinching NHS bosses in his fight against terminal cancer has died, aged 37 .

A mum-of-three lost half of her body weight after her daughter was teased by playground bullies for having a 'fat mum' .

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

Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .

Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .

EXTRAORDINARY elephants create beautiful paintings in Thailand .

A grandmother has told how she has been unable to feel emotion for the last 12 years thanks to heart drugs she had to take in order to survive .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .

A woman who starved herself to look like Cheryl Cole has told how she shrunk to just under 5st 13lbs after developing anorexia .