COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .

LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .

RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .