A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light. The night sky looks magical as hints of stars glisten amongst the colours. These spellbinding images of the Northern Lights were captured by Norwegian photographer Tor-Ivar Naess. Tor-Ivar developed a love for the Aurora Borealis after he became fascinated by the colour range of the natural phenomenon.
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
HIDING behind its flipper, this little seal comes over a little camera shy .
A woman who starved herself to look like Cheryl Cole has told how she shrunk to just under 5st 13lbs after developing anorexia .
FOR TWO memory-impaired parents their new-born baby Cian is a living timekeeper .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .
WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .