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

A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .

Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

A mother-to be has told how she cannot go near an iPad in case she suffers another miscarriage due to her intense sensitivity to electromagnetic waves .

A Zumba-mad grandma has lost almost 14st after becoming addicted to the popular dance craze .

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .

Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

A woman has told how she fled to Australia, after a one night stand burned down her house .