A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants. Disgusted mourners have arrived at their loved ones graves to find penalty notices insensitively stuck to the headstones, demanding money for having more than one pot plant. Several visitors to Alfreton Cemetery in Derbyshire were met with a letter from Amber Valley Borough Council stating they had to pay for a garden permit.
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .