Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions. The porcupines, after leaving their spikey mark, hurry away from the pack of big cats. But they are unable to escape when the pride's alpha male lion arrives and devours the retreating spine covered rodents. Amateur photographer and software tester Philip Eglise witness the battle during a trip to the Kalahari Desert, South Africa .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
Oday she is a picture of health - a happy, smiling child, enjoying life to the full .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
An owl swoops through the air before making an unorthodox landing - right on top of an unsuspecting man's head .