STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

While most Brits look forward to long hot summer days, a mum-of-six will be staying in the shade - as she is allergic to the sun .

SAT happily on the branch of a tree, this little frog appears unfazed by a surprise visitor .

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

FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .

Andrea Kubinova, 30, from London, became great friends with serial killer and necrophiliac, Dennis Nilsen .

A young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .