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 .

PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - BRAVE TOT ALLERGIC TO SUN: Leighton Brownrigg, 2 .

TWIN SISTERS from Australia have taken their sisterly bond to the extreme by spending £150,000 to look IDENTICAL .

A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .

Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .

The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .

Whenever 46-year-old Melo Masi steps out of his front door in Berkshire, he risks being mobbed by strangers desperate for a selfie - all because of his incredible likeness to Hollywood megastar, Johnny Depp .

THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .

FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .

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

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 .