With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .

A psychology student from California looks so much like Game of Thrones' Jon Snow that he is mobbed by fans of the fantasy show .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

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

A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .

A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .

A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

A mother-of-one has revealed how a neighbour’s friend ‘mauled’ her face, leaving her scarred for life .

POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .