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A 66-year-old whose face was chewed off by a naked man under the influence of drugs is smiling again, a year after the horrifying attack.

Ronald Poppo lost his nose, both eyes and 80%...

Reports are swirling that Pope Francis was filmed performing an exorcism after Sunday’s Pentecost Mass.

Footage of the Pope placing his hands on the head of a child sitting in a wheelchair was captured by Catholic satellite channel TV2000.

The Pope is seen in...

A base jumper’s miraculous survival after falling 1,000ft to the ground has been caught on film.

Matthew Gough was base jumping in Lake Garda, Italy, when his parachute opened backwards and became twisted after he leapt from a cliff – sending him plummeting to the ground.

A High Court judge is deciding whether a married 37-year-old woman with bipolar disorder has the mental capacity to ask for an abortion.

The woman, who is 23 weeks into her planned pregnancy, was detained in a specialist unit under the terms of...

Touching footage of a survivor of the Oklahoma tornado being reunited with the dog she thought she had lost has emerged.

Barbara Garcia was being interviewed by CBS news amidst the wreckage of her home, following the storms which have killed 91 people so far....

So that tattoo of your girlfriend seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Then she ran off with your best friend, leaving you with nothing but that gigantic likeness of herself on your arm.

If you find yourself in these shoes, there’s always laser...

It is the pastoral setting believed to have inspired Kenneth Grahame’s children’s classic, The Wind In The Willows.

And the Hogmoor Copse nature reserve, located near Pangbourne, Berkshire, is back in vogue – if for different reasons entirely.

For the riverside enclave where Ratty,...

Move over Samantha Brick, there’s a new whinger in town.

Meet Laura Fernee, a 33-year-old academic who claims she was hounded out of her work because of her beauty.

Fernee, who has a PhD and worked as a scientific researcher, has been unemployed for two years...

A pensioner has died after he was dragged off his scooter by two donkeys – which then trampled and bit him so viciously that when his body was found it was believed he had been mauled by wolves.

Sandor Horvath, 65, was chased and pulled off the scooter at...

The British toddler pulled from the wreckage of a car crash and sent to a morgue by mistake after emergency workers thought he had died, has been pictured.

Mohammed Eisa Danial Hayat, then just a year old, was the sole survivor of the devastating crash during a...

The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has condemned Twitter and all those who use it.

Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said a Saudi who uses social media sites – specifically Twitter - “has lost this world and his afterlife”, the BBC...

There are reports activist Amina Tyler has been arrested after daubing the word ‘Femen’ on a cemetery wall in Tunisia.

Tyler, who was threatened with death by stoning for baring her breasts online, was pictured being led away after police and Salafists clashed in Kairouan...

A cheating wife had her dirty laundry very publicly aired after her husband returned home unexpectedly, prompting her lover to make a quick exit via a window.

The unfolding drama was filmed by a baying crowd in Brazil and captures the nail-biting moments the lover - clad only in...

A performance artist has announced he is the mysterious naked man who has been pictured dashing around Beijing with a giant crucifix.

Li Binyuan says he is the somewhat chilly-looking chap whose nude exploits have gone viral online.

He laid claim to the stunts on

A boa constrictor and iguana are locked in a fatal embrace in this horrifying yet fascinating shot.

Posted to Reddit via Imgur, the image is accompanied by hundreds of comments speculating as to how the battle played out and which beast died first.

Not much else...

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect Disney's comments.

Disney has dismissed claims that it pulled a controversial redesign of one of its characters, according to reports.

There was an outcry against the apparent sexualisation of Brave character Merida, with nearly 200,000 people signing a...

A pair of penguins named after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their first chicks.

The Gentoo birds, who live in the London Aquarium, have two eggs which are set to hatch in June.

Their two eggs are being carefully incubated by...

A disabled woman who attended her graduation ceremony along with her service dog – who was also dressed in a cap and gown – has seen pictures of the proud event go viral.

The image was apparently taken during a ceremony on Saturday at the College of Applied Health...

Ironing swastika armbands, drinking beers, getting tattoos and tasering each other.

This is how neo-Nazis from America’s National Socialist Movement relaxed as they geared up for a national convention in Atlanta.

The jarring, yet strangely intimate images were shot – after months of negotiation...

An 18-month-old girl suffering from a severe case of Hydrocephalus has had free lifesaving surgery.

Roona Begum's condition – also known as “water on the brain” – caused her head to swell to three times its normal size.

On Wednesday surgeon Sandeep Vaishya told AFP: “The...