Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .

POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .

IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .

A shoe designer from London has spent a whopping £30,000 on Hello Kitty memorabilia .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .

A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .

THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .

WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .

A mother-of-four has revealed how her daughter tragically took her own life after being subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of her ex-partner .