A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

From the crisp, snow clad mountains to vivid bright blue rivers, these breath-taking photographs capture the incredible beauty of various landscapes across France and Italy .

WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .

A feisty squirrel takes on a fearsome foe when he decides to tackle a T-REX .

STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .

CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .

A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

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 .

IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .