SHOWING off her best assets for the camera, this cheeky orangutan is in the mood for love, puckering up her lips to blow the biggest kiss she can. Feeling flirty on this particular morning, this female orang-utan named Nonja, 37, decided to send out a bit of love to zoo visitors, showing off her best pout. These hilarious photographs were taken by animal photographer Josef Gelernter, 32, after a visit to Vienna Zoo, Austria.
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
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 .