These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .

FLAMINGOS from above look like the pink algae they eat .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .

A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .

A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants .

A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .

While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .

A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .