A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy. Jacopo Rigotti, of Val Di Cembra, Trento, Italy, photographed the bird as she flew towards her nest, located in the trunk of a black pine tree, before feeding her hungry chicks a beakful of insects. The 25-year-old photographer says: "I decided to set up the camera on a tripod at the base of the tree, along with a flash that would help to prevent shadows in the photographs."
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
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 .
A ROAD KILL munching Scot has chewed on everything from a dead squirrel to an unlucky crow – all in the name of art .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .