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

CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .

This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .

The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .

TWIN SISTERS from Australia have taken their sisterly bond to the extreme by spending £150,000 to look IDENTICAL .

Meet the real-life Little Bo Peep - a young woman who spends her days tending to her four pet SHEEP .

SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .

A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .

CCTV stills of the sickening attack .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .