With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .

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 .

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

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 .

A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - BRAVE TOT ALLERGIC TO SUN: Leighton Brownrigg, 2 .

A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

A photographer has transformed women with alopecia into stunning sirens - showing that bald is beautiful .

A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .

A woman has revealed how cruel bullies taunted her daily at school, calling her names like 'pig nose' and 'no nose' .