These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .

A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .

A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

This artist had a lot of bottle to re-create a masterpiece painted with nothing but 24 litres of cola .

A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .

THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .

An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .