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.
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .
WELCOME to the real Frankenstein's lab where carefully pickled creatures are left to stew in jars .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
A woman has revealed how cruel bullies taunted her daily at school, calling her names like 'pig nose' and 'no nose' .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .
A hero dog has saved the life of her asthmatic owner after waking her up during a severe asthma attack .
An American woman whose skin turned silver after using nose drops is warning people of the dangers of medicines containing the metal .
A BLIND school-girl whose growth has been stunted by a rare medical condition is finding her feet again with the help of a specially made mini-cane .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .