A four-year-old boy who had been stung by a scorpion died after ER medics treated him for pneumonia instead of lethal venom, a hospital inquiry has revealed. Victim Miguel Grijota…
Emergency workers 'fish' a helpless deer out of a frozen river after it accidentally fell through the ice. The poor creature was spotted swimming desperately in ice-cold waters of the…
Badly injured cat with a broken leg goes to a hospital emergency room for treatment. Video footage shows the cat with its injured leg held up in pain as it…
Doctors have successfully removed more than 90 per cent of a small child’s brain tumour after his parents were told it was inoperable and he was flown from Mexico to…
An 11-year-old boy has died in intensive care 11 days after he was bitten by a snake in Brazil. Joao Victor Delfino Laurentino was playing with friends in Mogi das…
A 75-year-old Irish woman died when she plunged 33 feet to her death in a hiking accident in Majorca. The woman had been walking with a group in Escorca, in…
A miracle baby born three and a half months premature and weighing less than a bag of sugar is ready to go home, his overjoyed parents have been told. Mum-to-be…
Baffled firefighters in Colorado had to use a hydraulic platform to rescue a bear that had somehow got stuck in a 50-foot-high treetop. The bear had been hanging around suburban…
A woman doing her weekly laundry got the shock of her life when she looked into a launderette washing machine and found a six-foot python staring back at her. The…
Surgeons have removed an astonishing 46-kilogramme tumour from a woman who thought she'd just been putting on weight. The tumour - about the same weight as a small person -…