From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland. The elusive natural phenomenon, also known as the Northern Lights, was photographed by Lana Tannir when she was on a six day trip through northern Finland. The 24-year-old student visited Urho Kekkonen National Park, located in Saariselkä, Finland, as well as a nearby igloo village, named Kakslauttanen. Lana, of Starnberg, Germany, says “Seeing the Northern Lights cannot simply be described with only one emotion.
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SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
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 .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .