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. Surrounded by vast desert and distant snow topped mountains, the enormous satellite dishes, dome-shaped buildings and telescopes are run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , an intergovernmental body dedicated to observing space. Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza was granted access to several observatory sites.
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
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 .
Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .