Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .

THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .

WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .

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

A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .

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 .

A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .

A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her .

DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .