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 .

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 .

A CHEEKY snail fancies his chances at getting a free ride on a sunny afternoon .

A woman has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw her baby’s head crowning .

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

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 .

FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .

A medical student has gone from chunky to hunky after being dumped by his ex- girlfriend for being too 'chubby' .

A pair of bank myna birds fight it out in front of their ladies .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .

A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .