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

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .

UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .

MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .

Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .

Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .

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