A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

HIDING behind its flipper, this little seal comes over a little camera shy .

From vibrant blues to dazzling oranges, these eye catching hummingbirds proudly show off their impressive colours .

A woman with an irrational fear of toilets goes POTTY on the loo and runs away when she flushes, terrified it will swallow her up .

EXTRAORDINARY elephants create beautiful paintings in Thailand .

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .

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 .

This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .

TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .