BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .

SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .

An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

WITH A STERN look of determination on their faces, these adorable pooches perfect their doggy paddle as they dive head first into a swimming pool .

Meet the real life anime girl who looks like a living cartoon character despite never going under the knife .

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 northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .

The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .

Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

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 .