A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .

RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .

PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .

Something appears to have tickled this baby owl as he seems to be having a real HOOT .

A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .

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

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

Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .

A Kermit the Frog toy made famous by travelling the world is still globehopping, having racked up an incredible 420,000 kilometres to some of the world's furthest flung places .

A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .

ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .