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.
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .