A group of shelter dogs showcase their loveable personalities in a series of passport-style photographs - in the hope of finding their forever homes .

This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .

FOR TWO memory-impaired parents their new-born baby Cian is a living timekeeper .

Those with a fear of flying and a ticket to Lukla Airport will want to look away now .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .

MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .

A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .

WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .

A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

A teenage girl nicknamed 'spotty dog' by school bullies has embraced the hundreds of birthmarks that cover her entire face and body .

A Crohn's sufferer has told of her humiliation after she soiled herself when a Co-op staff member reportedly refused to let her use the toilet .