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 .

BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .

SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .

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

A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .

A pair of bank myna birds fight it out in front of their ladies .

PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .

An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .

A young mum has told how a phantom pregnancy almost destroyed her dream of having a second child .

With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .

THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .

ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .