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. Surrounded by vast desert and distant snow topped mountains, the enormous satellite dishes, dome-shaped buildings and telescopes are run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , an intergovernmental body dedicated to observing space. Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza was granted access to several observatory sites.
N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
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A mum-of-two has revealed how she accidentally set her face on fire while lighting a cigarette .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A woman has told how she fled to Australia, after a one night stand burned down her house .
Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .
SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .
A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .