A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

Working at a height of 36,000ft, pilots may have the best view in the world .

EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .

In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .

JUMPING and bouncing off one another, these young cheetahs enjoy some harmless fun .

Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .

FOR most people, spending a night locked up in a cell would be undesirable .

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 .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .