SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible. The small group of European ground squirrels compete with one another as they eagerly nibble at their lunch at the Radouc Nature reserve in the Czech Republic. The lunch break was captured by 33-year-old photographer and engineer Jiri Michal, as he spent the afternoon at the reserve.
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .