ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .

A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .

A mother-of-two has revealed how her son became a human fireball after a dangerous 'TikTok challenge' went wrong .

CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .

A former obese woman has told how she lost 19st, but was so terrified of gaining weight that she ended up developing an eating disorder .

She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

FROM A mini table and chairs to a detailed violin, it’s hard to believe these incredible sculptures are all carved into the nib of PENCILS .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .

A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .