These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

Something appears to have tickled this baby owl as he seems to be having a real HOOT .

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 .

FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .

Most people have an angel at the top of their Christmas tree, but one bear at Chester Zoo decided he wanted to be the star of the show .

Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .

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 .

AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .

WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .

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 .

It was sunny, now it's raining .

This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .