Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .

WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .

YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .

AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .

A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .

SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .

This brave Hyena finally catches his pray among the thousands of flamingos, Lake Nakuru, Kenya - OUTNUMBERED among thousands of flamingos, this bold hyena is not put off from hunting for a morning snack .

FOR most people, spending a night locked up in a cell would be undesirable .

A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000 .