A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

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

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

MEET the real life sleeping beauty - who snoozed for TWO months when a rare sleep disorder took over her life and turned it into a nightmare .

A woman has revealed how she left her husband of 24 years, after falling in love with a man, 18 years her junior .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

A Cheryl Fernandez-Versini lookalike has slammed skinny-shamers, after seeing her celebrity doppelganger abused for her tiny frame .

FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .

A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .