STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event. Shot over the Grand Canyon and even downtown Los Angeles, these amazing images of lightning were taken by American photographer Scott Stulberg, 57. His love of lightning led him to move to the state of Arizona, renowned for its high frequency of storms. ‘No matter where I am, I always feel like a little kid again when I see lightning,’says Scott, of Sedona, Arizona.
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A mother has spoken of her outrage after discovering her missing cat had been stolen - only to be told she cannot have its location due to the Data Protection Act .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .