A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her. While most children dream of a white Christmas, eight-year-old Lola Dyer, dreads the chilly days. The schoolgirl suffers from a condition called cold urticaria and being outside for just a few minutes leaves her with painful rashes all over her body. The allergy is so bad it has even landed her in hospital after she developed breathing difficulties.
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
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 .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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 .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .