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.
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
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 .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
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 .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .