A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

A woman was left fighting for her life after an eczema wound became infected and caused a deadly flesh-eating bug to ravish a hole in her arm .

An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .

A British diver has set a new world record for the longest warm water scuba dive by spending a mammoth 49 hours and 56 minutes under water .

THIS UNUSUAL collaboration between a mother and her two-year-old daughter makes for some stunning works of art .

A CHEEKY snail fancies his chances at getting a free ride on a sunny afternoon .

These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .

Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .

A Game of Thrones obsessed couple have fallen in love after meeting at a comic convention dressed as lovestruck characters Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drago .

A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .

SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .

THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .