TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo. The Sumatran tiger cubs are given a full examination by zoo staff to ensure they’re in purr-fect shape. The trio, born to mother Kirana and father Fabi on 2nd January, huddle together after their checks, which included being examined, sexed, weighed and vaccinated.
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
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 .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .