CREATED over 60 years ago, this weighty machine was the Photoshop of its time. The Adam’s Retouching Machine, which weighs two-and-a-half stone, was invented in 1947 and gave photographers the opportunity to perfect their pictures. Instead of uploading images to a computer, photographers would place their negative under the magnifying glass. Blemishes in the picture could then be smoothed out by using a retouching pencil, assisted by the gentle vibrations of the machine.
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
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 .