A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .

A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .

An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .

CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .

A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .

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 .

A care worker who broke her spine after jumping from a window to escape a sex attack at the hands of a resident has called for tougher safety measures to protect care staff .

AS graffiti goes, this giant mural of a sweet little girl tenderly watering a tree beneath her is a far cry from what you usually see emblazoned across cities .

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 .