Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .

USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .

This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .

A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .

An owl swoops through the air before making an unorthodox landing - right on top of an unsuspecting man's head .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .

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

Walking down the street in her local town, heads turn as Jessica Villafane passes by .

As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .