EXTRAORDINARY elephants create beautiful paintings in Thailand .

LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .

PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .

What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .

A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .

This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .

This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .