If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .

Here’s a pair of shoes that really are fit for a princess, and with a price tag of more than £276,000, they are the most expensive shoes in the world .

A British diver has set a new world record for the longest warm water scuba dive by spending a mammoth 49 hours and 56 minutes under water .

A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

THIS caring wallaby shares her lunch with a hungry pigeon .

AN expectant mum suffered crippling contractions lasting a gruelling two months, due to complications from a rare condition .

CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .

An owl swoops through the air before making an unorthodox landing - right on top of an unsuspecting man's head .