A weightlifter has lost a whopping 12st after swapping biscuits for biceps .

SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .

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 .

A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .

STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .

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

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

A woman who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder has overcome her illness by becoming a LINGERIE MODEL .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

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