An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .

AN expectant mum suffered crippling contractions lasting a gruelling two months, due to complications from a rare condition .

A scorned woman sparked a punch-up in an airport after she caught her copper boyfriend returning from a romantic holiday with a female police officer .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

Oday she is a picture of health - a happy, smiling child, enjoying life to the full .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

Red squirrels are well known for their intelligence and curiosity but when one snapper caught this furry little guy trying to take his own self-portrait he couldn't help but be taken aback .

A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .