An 11-week-old giant panda cub takes baby steps during a morning veterinary examination at the zoo. (Ken Bohn / Reuters)

A monkey rests inside in a bowl where food is offered by devotees for birds and monkeys at the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India. (AP)

A flock of geese swim in the Yangtze river in Dongtu county, Anhui province, China. (Reuters)

An elderly man takes his afternoon nap at a McDonalds in a shopping mall in Singapore. (Wong Maye-E/Associated Press)

Two dogs look out through a hole in the wall of a house in Bogota, Colombia. (Fernando Vergara/Associated Press)

A meerkat playing in the foliage at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, where staff have added fallen leaves to the meerkat enclosure. (PA)

One of the best images we’ve seen this morning this this park in Jiuquan, China which shows autumn has truly arrived. (Barcroft)

Daredevil Mich Kemeter, 23, walks across a tight rope without any safety harness above the 1,000ft of Verdon Gorge. One wrong move could have seen Mich plummet 650ft foot into the Grand Canyon du Verdon in South of France. But the extreme Austrian athlete managed to navigate his way safely across the thin tight rope in just under two minutes. (Barcroft)

A hang glider soars through the air above a chain of mountains in Schiers, Switzerland. (Arno Balzarini/Keystone)

A tiger cub rests at a nursery room at the Shanghai Zoo in Shanghai, China. (Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press)