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.
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
WELCOME to the Hidden Beach - the world's most idyllic BOMB SITE .
A miracle baby has overcome a one-in-five-million brain condition – after a blob of glue saved his life .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .