A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

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

Here’s a pair of shoes that really are fit for a princess, and with a price tag of more than £276,000, they are the most expensive shoes in the world .

Made up of 40,000 pieces, putting in over 200 hours of work and blunting endless blades, this is the final result for the world’s largest jigsaw, finally finished on Wednesday .

THESE BREATH-TAKING photographs show the natural beauty of Iceland's most famous waterfall .

ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .

This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .