Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .

HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

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 group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .

A dog whose forehead skin was so heavy that he was going blind has finally seen his owner again after undergoing a £1K FACELIFT .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .