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 .

Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .

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

ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .

With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .

A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .

This daredevil wildebeest tried a walk on the wild side - straight into the snatches of a huge 18 foot crocodile .

A Romanian woman is celebrating her new job as a knife-thrower’s assistant after leaving her family behind to move to the UK .

A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

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