MEET the real life sleeping beauty - who snoozed for TWO months when a rare sleep disorder took over her life and turned it into a nightmare .

Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .

A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .

A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .

OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled .

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

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

WITH A STERN look of determination on their faces, these adorable pooches perfect their doggy paddle as they dive head first into a swimming pool .

Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .

SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .