A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .

LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .

It was sunny, now it's raining .

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

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .

A mum-of-one has revealed how her one-year-old daughter suffered second and third degree burns to 22% of her body after pouring boiling water over herself .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .

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 .

BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .