Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .

WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .

A nine year old girl nearly lost her leg after doctors initially misdiagnosed her bone cancer as a pulled muscle .

This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .

CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .

DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .