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.
FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .
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 .
A woman has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw her baby’s head crowning .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .