A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs. The feisty ants, all desperately trying to keep hold of their dinner, are eventually joined by a small colony of weaver ants as they all bid to take the prize home. The struggle over the horse fly was photographed in Tiruvalla, Kerala, India in the back garden of Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai. The 39-year-old Indian neurosurgeon says: “There is a huge teak tree leaning over my terrace which hosts millions of weaver ants.
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .
A mum from Gloucestershire has accepted her four-year-old twin son’s decision to live full time as a girl - and is now letting him wear a skirt to school .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .