WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .

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

This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

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

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .

SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .

An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

Kelly Harvey, 30 and new boyfriend Ryan Archbold -A bereaved wife once voted Mum Of The Year has been convicted of benefit fraud after claiming widow's allowance long after her new partner had moved in .

This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .