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

A woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .

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

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .

Several times a year, Gemma, 21, can be found mumbling her words and struggling to concentrate as she walks around in a dream-like state .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .

With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .