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 baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A mum-of-two has worn the same t-shirt for an entire year to raise awareness of a 1 in 7 million condition that prevents her daughter from talking .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .
Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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 .