NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .

A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .

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

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

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

MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .

A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .

A woman has revealed how she left her husband of 24 years, after falling in love with a man, 18 years her junior .