This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .

A young mum-to-be who was told she would never fall pregnant due to a rare condition has decided to keep her miracle baby even though his birth could leave her paralysed and in pain forever .

An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .

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

The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .

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

A care worker who broke her spine after jumping from a window to escape a sex attack at the hands of a resident has called for tougher safety measures to protect care staff .

LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

From the tails of fighter planes to black and white checked buildings, graveyards take different and unusual forms around the world .

SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .

An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .