FROM A mini table and chairs to a detailed violin, it’s hard to believe these incredible sculptures are all carved into the nib of PENCILS .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

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

Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .

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

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

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

High street giant Harvey Nichols has come under fire for a "disgusting" ad campaign that depicts a woman peeing herself .

Kaitlin pictured aged nine - Heart pounding, Kaitlin Womack stared in shock at a Facebook post on her phone .

From the crisp, snow clad mountains to vivid bright blue rivers, these breath-taking photographs capture the incredible beauty of various landscapes across France and Italy .