TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo. The Sumatran tiger cubs are given a full examination by zoo staff to ensure they’re in purr-fect shape. The trio, born to mother Kirana and father Fabi on 2nd January, huddle together after their checks, which included being examined, sexed, weighed and vaccinated.
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .