An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .

A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .

From the tails of fighter planes to black and white checked buildings, graveyards take different and unusual forms around the world .

Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .

Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .

CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .

A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .

Bryanna Debinder, 20, from Pennsylvania in the USA, has lost 7 stone in order to impress her idol .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .

BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .