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.
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
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 .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A luxury caravan with a price tag of ONE MILLION DOLLARS is due to hit the road later this year .