Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS. Becca Drake, 40, of Sandbach, Cheshire, has dedicated her life to caring for her pet pooches and insists that her pugs are worth every penny and more. After being gifted her first pug puppy from her parents Barrie, 68 and Merle, 72, on her 30th Birthday, Becca instantly fell in love with the popular flat-faced breed. Now Becca shares her two bedroom modest home with 30 adorable mutts, which she has rescued and bred over the past 10 years.
A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .
Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
PERCHING on the edge of a flower, these loved-up caterpillars can't resist each other as they enjoy a romantic moment together .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .