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 .