Ornate chandeliers and mahogany panelling give a glimpse into this abandoned building's former glory after it's been left to rot for the past decade .

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 pair of bank myna birds fight it out in front of their ladies .

SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .

An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .

AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .

FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .

Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .

LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .

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 .

A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .

At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .