LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London. Aware of her hitchhikers, the female red deer seems unfazed as the starlings arrive. The scene was photographed by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron on a day out in Richmond Park, London. Samuel, of Watford, says: ‘I have seen this behaviour before from starlings, but I have never seen so many on one deer.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .