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 .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .

A woman left disfigured and traumatised by an addiction to lip filler injections has issued a warning to others searching for the perfect pout after the plastic chemicals nearly killed her .

A young mum has told how a phantom pregnancy almost destroyed her dream of having a second child .

A woman has revealed how cruel bullies taunted her daily at school, calling her names like 'pig nose' and 'no nose' .

A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .

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

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

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 .