A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .

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 .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .

A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .

A fish almost escapes the beak of a bird as they both soar through the air .

With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .

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

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .

A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .