SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner. After swooping down from a branch to catch its prey, the owl safely hands over a field mouse to his family in their nest. The breathtaking photographs were captured by Italian photographer Jacopo Rigotti, 24, after he spent weeks photographing the majestic birds in South Tyrol, Italy. “My home is surrounded by forests, rivers and mountains and I am always in close contact with many species of owls,” says Jacopo, of Trentino, Italy.
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .