WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze. Bathing in the hot springs, he looks right at home as he indulges in a bit of me time. This calm monkey was captured by Edinburgh photographer Chris Rush, 26, while visiting the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan. “These photographs capture one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever encountered,” says Chris, originally of Newcastle.
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .
A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
An artist has NAILED IT by creating beautiful and perfectly precise artwork using a hammer and 30,000 nails .
A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .
A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .