A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .

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

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

A woman has told how her addiction to eating bath bubbles during her pregnancy was better than SEX .

COULD this £5,000 auction of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool front door be the most bizarre celebrity sale yet? The door, which looks-like it may have been knocked – and possibly kicked – very hard during its past, was used by members of Britain’s most famous band to visit lead-singer Paul McCartney when he lived at the address from 1955 to 1964 .

A little girl who lost all four limbs to meningitis has taken her first steps since the illness thanks to her new 'Princess legs' .

The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .

A woman has told how she saved the life of her own rapist after he overdosed on pills shortly after attacking her .

ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .

An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .

ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .