A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .

A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .

AN anorexic woman whose heart stopped after she starved herself to 3st has revealed that ‘dying’ for a minute helped shock her into recovery .

FOR TWO memory-impaired parents their new-born baby Cian is a living timekeeper .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

This artist had a lot of bottle to re-create a masterpiece painted with nothing but 24 litres of cola .