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 .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

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

IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - McDIVING CRAZE GOES VIRAL - DRUNK students have brought the term 'extra-value meal' to a new level in a bizarre internet craze sweeping across McDonalds chains - McDiving .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .

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 .

SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .

This Robin Reliant appears to have taken a wrong turn after it ended up 15 feet high up in a TREE .

As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - LETHAL BIRTHMARK NEARLY SUFFOCATES GIRL: Zoe Mitchell when she was two-weeks-old .