LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .

A feisty squirrel takes on a fearsome foe when he decides to tackle a T-REX .

A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .

A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000 .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

A man has spent almost £100K on lip fillers, Botox and designer clothing in a bid to look like Kim Kardashian .

A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .