WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .

USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .

FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .

Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

RAISING his foot into the air, this cheeky monkey offers an unusual wave .

AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .

A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

FOR most people, spending a night locked up in a cell would be undesirable .

DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .