SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already. The cheerless primate is not in the mood for any photographs, giving the camera the most irritated of glances. This amusing picture was taken by Louisiana writer Debi Dalio, 55, after a visit to the Rio Grande Zoo, New Mexico.
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
