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 young woman who once weighed the same as 12-year-old girl has told how a severely malnourished cat helped save her life and beat her anorexia .

While the various controversies rumble on regarding transport, security issues and overly-officious copyright enforcement, a couple of designers is saying what we're all thinking about the Olympics - and putting it on bags .

A mother told she had terminal cancer by doctors who ignored her pleas for help 13 times has made a miracle recovery following the UK's first operation of its kind .

The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .

WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .

A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .

A young mum-to-be who was told she would never fall pregnant due to a rare condition has decided to keep her miracle baby even though his birth could leave her paralysed and in pain forever .

Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .

A Crohn's sufferer has told of her humiliation after she soiled herself when a Co-op staff member reportedly refused to let her use the toilet .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .