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 little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .

Whenever 46-year-old Melo Masi steps out of his front door in Berkshire, he risks being mobbed by strangers desperate for a selfie - all because of his incredible likeness to Hollywood megastar, Johnny Depp .

Housands of cushions handmade as gifts for Olympics athletes may go to waste after London 2012 KNITWITS stitched up volunteers by refusing to allow them to hand them out .

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .

A couple have got engaged after the bride-to-be’s boyfriend set her a Facebook ‘likes’ challenge .

Something appears to have tickled this baby owl as he seems to be having a real HOOT .

CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .

MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .