An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .

A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .

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

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

CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .

A young mum has told how a phantom pregnancy almost destroyed her dream of having a second child .

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 .

WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .

An American man who suffered horrific third-degree burns to 70 percent of his body in a childhood accident has faced his fears by becoming a firefighter .

A woman was left fighting for her life after an eczema wound became infected and caused a deadly flesh-eating bug to ravish a hole in her arm .

Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .