She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

A "supermoon" rises this weekend .

A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .

FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .

SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .

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

A former chocolate addict, who used to gobble more than a THOUSAND bars a year, has shed an astonishing 10st after giving up her favourite treats .

MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .

A little girl who lost all four limbs to meningitis has taken her first steps since the illness thanks to her new 'Princess legs' .

A woman who has suffered over 200 allergic reactions in seven years, has been crowned a BEAUTY QUEEN .

A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots .