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.
A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
A woman who had three botched nose jobs finally feels pretty after forking out £8 .
A little boy whose brain grew inside his nose has been described as the 'real-life Pinocchio' by his proud mum .
An adorable baby girl was born with a heart-shaped birthmark on her forehead - after being conceived on Valentine's Day .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
CRAZY BEARDS come into their GROWN when they've been twisted and waxed into shape .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .