WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze. Bathing in the hot springs, he looks right at home as he indulges in a bit of me time. This calm monkey was captured by Edinburgh photographer Chris Rush, 26, while visiting the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan. “These photographs capture one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever encountered,” says Chris, originally of Newcastle.
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .