HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers. The 11x5ft pool, located in south-eastern California, was built by Austrian visual artist Alfredo Barsuglia. The free retreat includes a solar-powered filter and chlorination system, but visitors face a challenge if they want to take a dip.
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .