These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .

THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .

HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .

COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .

A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .

ONCE A doctor’s surgery, family home and office, an array of medical equipment is scattered throughout this abandoned home .

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

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .