RESTING his weary head on his flipper, this little seal pup takes a much needed nap after an afternoon of strenuous yoga .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

A scorned woman sparked a punch-up in an airport after she caught her copper boyfriend returning from a romantic holiday with a female police officer .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

A woman who was addicted to GREGGS has lost 9st after giving up her favourite food .

Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .

WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .

SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .