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.
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
WITH LUSH GREEN LANDSCAPES stretching out as far as the eye can see, you're in for a treat at these one of a kind treehouses .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .