High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

FLAMINGOS from above look like the pink algae they eat .

SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .

It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .

An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .

Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .

A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .