AS graffiti goes, this giant mural of a sweet little girl tenderly watering a tree beneath her is a far cry from what you usually see emblazoned across cities. Natalia Rak, 27, spent a staggering 70 hours painting the 20 metre high work of art, while perching on a mechanical lift for hours on end for a week. The larger than life painting shows a young girl dressed in traditional Polish clothes and standing on her tip toes as she tips the watering can onto the tree below.
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
BEAUTIFULLY lit by the dim glow of lanterns, a cave in Iceland is transformed into the perfect wedding venue .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A gang whose £1-million supercar scam has echoes of the film Gone In Sixty Seconds has been jailed for a total of 12 years .
A transgender woman has beaten the bullies after spending £25K on surgery to become a beauty pageant queen .
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 .