Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions. The porcupines, after leaving their spikey mark, hurry away from the pack of big cats. But they are unable to escape when the pride's alpha male lion arrives and devours the retreating spine covered rodents. Amateur photographer and software tester Philip Eglise witness the battle during a trip to the Kalahari Desert, South Africa .
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 .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .