A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .

Commuters were put in a HOLE lot of trouble after trains were cancelled by a hole created by BADGERS .

CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .

A reformed boozer, who spent nine months partying in Magaluf, has shed over 6 stone after ditching her ladette lifestyle to become a fitness fanatic .

A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .

Thousands of people are gathering at a stadium in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela .

STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .

An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .