LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .

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 man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

Red squirrels are well known for their intelligence and curiosity but when one snapper caught this furry little guy trying to take his own self-portrait he couldn't help but be taken aback .

SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .

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

A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .

AS graffiti goes, this giant mural of a sweet little girl tenderly watering a tree beneath her is a far cry from what you usually see emblazoned across cities .