An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake. Pictured in the Scottish Highlands, the bird hits the water before lifting off with a rainbow trout in its talons. The striking photographs were captured by 16-year-old student Samuel Aron, of Watford, when he visited the Rothiemurchus fishery in Aviemore, Scotland.
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
A teenager has beaten anorexia after becoming so ill that her mum planned her funeral .
A woman has revealed how she left her husband of 24 years, after falling in love with a man, 18 years her junior .