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Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers, from Queensland, were summoned to deal with the reptile this week, and posted this photo on Facebook so users could guess where it was. This led to a stream of different guesses from followers of the page, who were also asked to identify the species of the snake, but many people got it wrong. So can you do any better?

Bradford West MP Naz Shah (right) shared and liked a post (left) by a parody account of newspaper columnist Owen Jones saying victims of sex abuse in Rotherham should 'shut their mouths'. It came just days after Ms Shah, 43, penned an open letter attacking fellow Labour MP Sarah Champion (inset) for writing an article stating ‘Britain had a problem with Pakistani men targeting vulnerable white girls’. Ms Shah later deleted the post and her spokesman said it was a 'genuine mistake'.

The Queen was 'deeply hurt' by public criticism over her decision to keep the Royal Family at Balmoral in Scotland (bottom right) for a week after Princess Diana's death, a documentary will reveal. Former aide Sir Malcolm Ross told BBC special Diana, 7 Days, the sovereign made the decision to give the Princess a Royal funeral (left) and added she made a public address (top right) because of her 'sense of duty' to the nation. The television special is the third in recent months that Princes William and Harry have appeared on to talk about their mother's death.

He reigns over a kingdom where the average salary is around $33,000 (£25,000), but that didn't stop Saudi Arabia 's king splashing out $100million on holiday. King Salman travelled in style to his favourite holiday spot, Tangier, in the north west of Morocco, along with an entourage of more than 1,000, who were booked into luxury hotels. The king himself stayed in his 74-acre summer palace, one of his many properties around the world, which boasts lavish restaurants, and impressive views of the sea. Expenses during the month-long break included more than 200 cars, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reports. The 81-year-old's summer palace has been renovated extensively over the past 12 months, with helipads among the features added. Satellite images from October 2016 showed a number of upgrades the King made to his retreat in Morocco. It now has three helipads, several extra buildings and a tent the size of a circus big top. It comes after King Salman made the shock decision to appoint his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as crown prince and heir to the throne in June this year. The King made a surprise reshuffle and removed his nephew, Mohammed bin Nayef, as crown prince in favour of his 31-year-old son.

The rapper lashed out at the Metropolitan Police after the force tweeted about a seizure of heroin in the run up to Notting Hill Carnival. The Met said it had made more than 300 arrests, confiscated 190 knives and 18 firearms in a swoop to ensure the event remains 'safe and vibrant'. However, Stormzy tweet suggests that officers were only acting in such a precautionary manner because the carnival, which begins on Sunday August 27, is an Afro-Carribbean celebration.

They welcomed twins two months ago.  So it was no surprise George and Amal Clooney were making the most of their alone time together as they enjoyed a dinner date in Lagio, Italy during their romantic holiday.  Unable to keep their hands off each other, the pair were seen cosying up to each other as they explored the sights of the city on their stroll to the restaurant. 

A mother of twins who was shouted at by a restaurant manager when she changed her son's nappy in front of other diners has sparked a furious online debate. Dion Skull, 31, says she was 'humiliated' when she was told off for putting a new nappy on her one-year-old on the grass outside the Farmhouse Cafe (bottom right) in Guildford, Surrey. Ms Skull, who is mother to twin boys Luca and Zack (together left), was reprimanded when a fellow diner complained. She left a one-star review on the Farmhouse cafe's Facebook page, claiming she went to the posh family-owned restaurant (top right) 'at least once a week' and its changing facilities were not big enough for both of her boys. Her post sparked a fierce debate when the customer who originally complained waded into the argument.

 The This Morning presenter, 57, was spotted looking exhausted and dishevelled as she left day one of rehearsals for the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing on Tuesday (centre). Ruth revealed she was 'embarrassed' to hear her odds of winning are just 66/1, and didn't do much to change expectations with her frazzled appearance upon leaving the north London dance studios. Earlier in the day, the TV personality was spotted arriving alongside her fellow contestants including Gemma Atkinson (top inset) and Mollie King (bottom inset), as well as host Tess Daly (right).

The encounter was secretly filmed by the US YouTube channel To Catch a Cheater after the man's wife Ellen enlisted their help. Ellen said she first became suspicious when her neighbours told her they had discovered someone on the sex offender's list was registered at the couple's address. In the clip, the husband is filmed asking the young woman for her number.

The oldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama moved into her Harvard University dormitory on Monday afternoon, one day before her fellow students began arriving with their parents. The family was joined by members of the Secret Service as they pulled up to Malia's new residence in a two-SUV envoy, managing to avoid detection despite the thousands of people around the campus and in Cambridge. That was due in large part to their timing, with the Obamas electing to get everything moved and Malia settled into her new digs during the solar eclipse. Then it was time to say goodbye, which did not look easy for the parents of the 19-year-old freshman.

The incident was caught on the delivery driver's helmet camera after he confronted the man about stopping in the middle of the road at New Street Station, Birmingham. The man, who asked not to be named, said that the motorist had stopped his car in the road after thinking there was a pedestrian crossing ahead. The 29-year-old also claimed that the man was not wearing a seat belt and was using his phone at the steering wheel.

This is the moment 200 ISIS militants were annihilated by Russian air strikes as coalition forces look to flush the terror group out of Syria by battering them from the air. Russia said it has intensified its air campaign in Syria to help President Bashar Assad's forces drive Islamic State militants from Deir el-Zour, a major stronghold for the group, killing an estimated 800 militants across the country this month alone. Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi said Russian jets are now making 60 to 70 flights a day to target militants heading from other areas to join the fight in the eastern city. He says Syrian troops are meanwhile advancing from three directions to encircle Deir el-Zour. In the most recent raids, 200 terrorists were killed when an ISIS convoy was targeted as they headed towards the eastern city.

When Mouhssin Ismail(pictured) decided to throw in his highly paid job with a leading City law firm to become a teacher, his father didn’t speak to him for a week. ‘You could say that there was a pretty cold atmosphere for a while,’ says Mouhssin. He is pictured, left, with pupils who got into top universities including Cambridge, 1, and Oxford, 4.

Armed officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra police force can be seen breaking into apartments in the town of Ripoll on Thursday, where most of the alleged Barcelona terror plotters lived. In the video they can be seen searching the houses before discovering a collection of gas canisters similar to the ones found in a suspected bomb making factory in the town of Alcanar. Driss Oukabir and Mohammed Houli Chemlal have been charged over the attacks while Sahal El Karib has been detained for questioning. Mohammed Aallaa has been freed on bail.

The photographs from the Battle of Stalingrad have been brought to life in colour to mark the milestone anniversary of the critical defeat of Hitler's Nazi's (right) during World War Two. The colourised pictures show a soviet soldier victoriously hoisting a flag over the city of Stalingrad and the soldiers who helped make the victory possible. They include Yavorska Yulia (left) - a nurse who brought 56 wounded from the battlefield in battles for Stalingrad. The battle is often considered as one of the largest and bloodiest in warfare history with nearly 2.2million personnel involved in the fighting and with somewhere between 1.7million and 2million wounded, killed or captured. Also among the pictures is Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (inset, bottom right) - a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War Two and the first female pilot to shoot down an enemy plane, the first of two female fighters to earn the title 'fighter ace' and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills for a female fighter.

After a few seasons of micro-bags (most measured just inches across), the big bag is back. It began with Balenciaga’s huge, striped, leather shopper (a sell-out last season), and now designers from Celine and Chloe to Louis Vuitton are boasting super-size styles for autumn/winter. Known as ‘kitchen sink’ bags (because you can fit in everything but the kitchen sink), it’s claimed these styles have space for all your everyday essentials, thanks to clever pockets, handy fastenings and comfortable straps.

The crafty guest was left red-faced after she was rumbled by security for trying to smuggle a sandwich onto the grounds of Southwell Racecourse in Nottinghamshire. The hilarious picture of the smuggling sandwich was posted to Twitter by the racecourse, only for mischievous users to suggest better ideas for concealing booze. The racecourse tweeted: 'This was spotted by security yesterday, you hide it, we find it! Let us know your witty strapline suggestions and you could win a prize!' Instead of a strapline, one user posted a picture of a metal hip-flask secured to a lady's leg using packaging tape.

Mariah Carey has been hit by another photoshop scandal after she posed for a scantily-clad PAPER magazine shoot (left and inset). The 47-year-old singer was dressed in a showgirl inspired outfit in a nod to her recent Las Vegas residency. But it was pictures from her shows at Caesars Palace (centre and right) that led fans to accuse her of photoshopping to extremes. Mariah completed her #1 to Infinity residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas last month and the star appeared to look more fuller-figured in images from the performance. This is far from the first time the singer, who shares six-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with estranged husband Nick Cannon, has been accused of heavily photo shopping her pictures. 

Sam Houghton, from Sale, Greater Manchester, was shocked when one of the country's rarest animals, a black fox, jumped into his van. It has been revealed the fox is a pet called Wilf (pictured left and right) who lives nearby. Mr Houghton admitted he was scared at first, and tried to jump out of the van when the fox jumped in, which sent the fox running to hide behind some containers. As the pair regained their composure, they filmed the beautiful animal (inset), and were stunned to find out just how rare it was when they looked it up. Wilf lives with Ellie Monaghan, 17, and her sister Jade, 25, and has frequently run off from their home in Sale.

A 14-year-old boy who stopped traffic as he danced the Macarena in the middle of the street (pictured) has been arrested by Saudi police for 'violating public morals'. The teenager has been hauled in by officers and taken for questioning, despite the incident happening more than a year ago. In the 45-second clip, the teenager can be seen disrupting drivers while dancing to the popular 1990s hit in the area of Jeddah.

In the 1960s, thousands of 'fallout shelters' were constructed in New York City to protect more than 11.7 million residents from a potential nuclear bomb. After World War II illustrated the damage atomic bombs could inflict, and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were at an all-time high, New York Governor Norman Rockefeller spearheaded the controversial shelter initiative. After the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, President John F. Kennedy made the program nationwide. Though many of the shelters have since been converted for more practical uses, the signs around the city advertising shelter still serve as a reminder of the city's history. Most were built in government buildings or private residences, and many could be found in public schools, such as the one at PS 179 in Brooklyn (top right). In 2006, a lost shelter beneath the Brooklyn Bridge was discovered still fitted with tins of 'survival crackers' and medical supplies (inset left).

Jamshid Piruz, 35, was handed a life sentence earlier this year after he launched a frenzied attack on the two officers in East Sussex. He cornered PC Jessica Chick (left inset) and lashed out wildly at her with the claw hammer before repeatedly hitting her colleague PC Stuart Young (right inset). Both officers suffered injuries in the terrifying attack and thought they were going to be killed. It later emerged Piruz had served time in jail for murder after brutally killing a woman in his flat.

Richard and Pru Irvine created their custom-built house ten years ago after a mammoth construction project. The unique property(bottom left and right) in Pathhead, Midlothian, is set against 18th century lime kilns and its floor to ceiling windows offer panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.(top left, from the dining room) It also boasts two kitchens, an indoor garden, a TV room, a large drawing room,(top right) cloakroom and a boot room. Known as Hope House, the home has received awards from the Saltire Society and Edinburgh Architectural Association. It has now gone on the market for offers over £925,000. Earlier this year, when asked to pick his personal highlights from Grand Designs,(middle) McCloud singled it out.

When 120,000 people were told evacuate Chernobyl, Ukraine after the 1986 explosion at its nuclear power plant, many were forced to abandon their beloved dogs. Now, their descendants roam the exclusion zone: some 900 strays are living in and around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, piquing the interest of scientists and radiation experts  from around the world. Helped by a U.S. charity, they capture the dogs and fit them with special collars equipped with radiation sensors and GPS receivers in order to map radiation levels across the zone.

Business owner and mother of two boys, Malin Bjork, 29, from Vaxjo, Sweden, has enjoyed being skinny her whole life, until she became pregnant with her first son. Before her first pregnancy she barely exercised. She would eat whatever she wanted, including unhealthy junk food and home-baked cookies. This lifestyle caused her weight to hit 12st 8Ibs before she gave birth to her first son; she was a UK dress size 12-14, centre. After putting on weight, she returned to the gym and took up weightlifting and overhauled her diet. The mother, who is a vegetarian, now eats more vegetables, beans, lentils and clean food while focusing on incorporating more protein into her diet from other sources. This lifestyle change completely transformed her body and she now weighs 8st 11Ibs and wears a UK dress size 8-10, left and right, consuming 2,200 to 2,500 calories a day.

Former bodybuilding champion and father-of-four Paul Scarborough, 47, from Plymouth was close to death after losing 30 years worth of muscle in just eight weeks as life-threatening sepsis attacked his body. But his incredible physique (right), honed from his competition days, saved his life as it took the disease so long to work through his muscles that he got the medical help he needed just in time (top right). Doctors even told Paul they had never before seen someone survive such a severe sepsis infection before. Paul is now recovering at home after nearly two months in hospital (inset) with children Kiana, 17, Aiden, 10, Joseph, five, and Sam, who is six-months-old (left).

Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts closed on Monday after the attack, which terrified beachgoers who thought the trail of blood in the water was from a human. A pair of surfers were just feet away when the shark, believed to be a Great White, ripped into a seal. Screams pealed from the beach as the frantic surfers paddled for shore, a video shot at the beach shows,

After more than 14 hours buried in the rubble of their collapsed home, two young boys, Ciro, 11, and Mattias, seven, were saved by firefighters who dug with their bare hands. Earlier their seven-month-old brother Pasquale had been lifted to safety after their pregnant mother reported they were trapped. Two women have been confirmed dead in the earthquake, which caused buildings on the island of Ischia, close to Naples, to topple.

With an interior measuring just 13ft 2in long, 5ft 8in wide and 6ft 2in high, Eileah Ohning, 31, has made a home of her Freightliner Sprinter High Top van, left. The photographic producer from Columbus, Ohio, has lived in her compact four-wheel home since May 2017. The van comes complete with a memory foam mattress, bottom right, storage compartments, a desk and a camping stove in her living area, top right, and she even has plans to add in a shower, toilet and fridge. Eileah said: 'I don't need a house. I don't need something that big, I don't need something that eats up most of my monthly income. I'm not saying that living in a house is bad - a family of six needs more than a van - but that's the motivation for me.'

Shiveluch, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and a new NASA image show it poking through above a solid cloud deck, with an ash plume streaming to the west. Located on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia, it is one of many active volcanoes on the Peninsula. Nearby, to the south, the smaller Bezymianny volcano can be seem with a small steam plume coming from its summit.