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 American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .
A WIMBLEDON-mad couple will be creating a racket this summer - after installing a TENNIS COURT in their living room .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .