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
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
