While most Brits look forward to long hot summer days, a mum-of-six will be staying in the shade - as she is allergic to the sun. Laura Martindale, 26, suffers from a severe allergic reaction called Actinic Prurigo, which causes her skin to burn and break out in a rash when exposed to UVA and UVB light. At home, the full-time mum keeps the curtains and blinds closed during the day, and when she steps outside, she is forced to wear long sleeved tops and gloves, as well as high factor 50 suncream.
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
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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 .
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Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .