A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .

CONTRACT CANCELLED - DO NOT SYNDICATE!! .

RAISING his foot into the air, this cheeky monkey offers an unusual wave .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .

At first glance it might look like someone has taken their revenge on the makers of those infuriating insurance ads .

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 .

A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .

THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .