STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity. He bobs his eyes above the water and surveys the scene, ready for his close-up. These photographs were captured by French marine biologist Mathieu Foulquie, 39, after he spotted the friendly toad in the resurgence of a little river near Montpellier, France. Mathieu, of Montpellier, France, was investigating underwater in a river named 'la Bueges' when he put his hand on the river bed and the toad grabbed his fingers.
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
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 .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .