A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs. The feisty ants, all desperately trying to keep hold of their dinner, are eventually joined by a small colony of weaver ants as they all bid to take the prize home. The struggle over the horse fly was photographed in Tiruvalla, Kerala, India in the back garden of Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai. The 39-year-old Indian neurosurgeon says: “There is a huge teak tree leaning over my terrace which hosts millions of weaver ants.
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .