HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain. Using the large, flat plant as an umbrella, the young owls wince as the raindrops bounce off their make-shift roof. The rainy scene was captured by 36-year-old photographer, Tanto Yensen at a small park near his home in Jakarta, Indonesia.
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
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 photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
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 .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .