An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America. Born 10th January 2013, the infant Sumatran orangutan was the first child of mum Blaze. Pongo was born by Caesarean section and was raised by a team of zoo keepers, volunteers and veterinarians, while his mum recovered. First-time mother Blaze initially had to learn to develop maternal skills following her son's birth by Caesarean section last January.
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
With stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, Iceland’s rural beauty is inescapable – especially for Hollywood .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
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 .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .