This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .

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

It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .

HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .

These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .

Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .