Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .

WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .

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 .

AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .

The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .

Diners on this aeroplane are never disappointed with their meal, because the decommissioned aircraft is now home to an air-mazing McDonald’s restaurant .