A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

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

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .

OPEN mouthed and wide eyed this little squirrel appears startled .

THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

A woman who battled aggressive bowel cancer has started a fashion blog offering style tips for those living with a colostomy bag .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

A former obese woman has told how she lost 19st, but was so terrified of gaining weight that she ended up developing an eating disorder .

A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after she was rejected by an adoption agency because of her pregnancy phobia .

A mother-of-two has revealed how her son became a human fireball after a dangerous 'TikTok challenge' went wrong .