WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .

EXTRAORDINARY elephants create beautiful paintings in Thailand .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

WE’RE all familiar with the heart-wrenching pictures of dogs abandoned in animal shelters, but one photographer has found an innovative way of showcasing the pooch’s personality .

A shoe designer from London has spent a whopping £30,000 on Hello Kitty memorabilia .

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

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .

An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .