An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .

Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .

A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .

A woman was diagnosed with cancer after a cyst left her so bloated medics were convinced she was pregnant .

THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .

THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .

TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .

Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .