MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .

Enjoying life’s little pleasures is something that many struggle to do .

Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .