SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .

SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .

NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .

Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - BEAUTY QUEEN ACID SCARE: Miss England finalist, Karla Fitzpatrick, 19, at the Miss England contest .

GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .

Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .

Meet the real life anime girl who looks like a living cartoon character despite never going under the knife .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

A woman whose daughter committed suicide after being raped as a child, has revealed she donated her organs - saving four peoples’ lives .

SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .