Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .

An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .

Bryanna Debinder, 20, from Pennsylvania in the USA, has lost 7 stone in order to impress her idol .

A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .

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 .

FOR most people, spending a night locked up in a cell would be undesirable .

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

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .