A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

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

LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .

FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .

WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .

FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .

HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .

Have you ever wanted to emulate the Duchess of Cambridge's style? Well, now there's an app for that .