In April 2018, Lourdes Cuello, 50, from New Jersey, US, was making a cup of tea when her hair and hoodie caught fire on her gas stove. She suffered third-degree burns to her neck, chest, left shoulder and armpit and was hospitalised for six weeks. During that time, she endured two skin grafts surgeries and had to relearn how to walk. Over six years on, Lourdes can't drive due to the lack of mobility in her neck, and she never uses the stove when she's home alone. Thankfully, she has otherwise recovered well.
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
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 .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
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 .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .