High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith .

DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .

SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .

A Game of Thrones obsessed couple have fallen in love after meeting at a comic convention dressed as lovestruck characters Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drago .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .

A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .

A woman has released pictures of the horrific injuries she suffered when her jealous ex attacked her with a brick .

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .

An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .

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