A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .

These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .

AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

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 .

An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs .

ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .

SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .

A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .