WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up. The smiley tokay gecko was photographed by photographer Angi Wallace in her home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The 47-year-old says: “I placed this gecko on a branch deliberately to take some photographs. “He has the cutest face, however if I wave my hand near him he opens his mouth as a form of defensive behaviour.
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .