FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .

LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

A diving mad couple have finally taken the plunge, having tied the knot 30ft underwater .

THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

A mum from Gloucestershire has accepted her four-year-old twin son’s decision to live full time as a girl - and is now letting him wear a skirt to school .

A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .

A nine year old girl nearly lost her leg after doctors initially misdiagnosed her bone cancer as a pulled muscle .