A mum from Gloucestershire has accepted her four-year-old twin son’s decision to live full time as a girl - and is now letting him wear a skirt to school .

AN underground HOBBIT motel inspired by JRR Tolkien is just one of the unique places to stay at the world's most unusual hotel complex .

A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .

With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .

SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .

A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .

BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .