From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

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

Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .

SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

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

STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .