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."
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .