TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo. The Sumatran tiger cubs are given a full examination by zoo staff to ensure they’re in purr-fect shape. The trio, born to mother Kirana and father Fabi on 2nd January, huddle together after their checks, which included being examined, sexed, weighed and vaccinated.
Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
THIS UNUSUAL collaboration between a mother and her two-year-old daughter makes for some stunning works of art .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .