STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity. He bobs his eyes above the water and surveys the scene, ready for his close-up. These photographs were captured by French marine biologist Mathieu Foulquie, 39, after he spotted the friendly toad in the resurgence of a little river near Montpellier, France. Mathieu, of Montpellier, France, was investigating underwater in a river named 'la Bueges' when he put his hand on the river bed and the toad grabbed his fingers.
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .
She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
A feisty squirrel takes on a fearsome foe when he decides to tackle a T-REX .
A Romanian woman is celebrating her new job as a knife-thrower’s assistant after leaving her family behind to move to the UK .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .