An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .

A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .

A hero dog has saved the life of her asthmatic owner after waking her up during a severe asthma attack .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - LETHAL BIRTHMARK NEARLY SUFFOCATES GIRL: Zoe Mitchell when she was two-weeks-old .

She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .

STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .

CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .

A soldier who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan has found love with a blonde bombshell he met through his newfound passion for rally driving .

Ashlee, 20, has always known that she was supposed to be a girl .

The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .