A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

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 .

SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .

DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .

With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .

With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .

When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .

HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .

A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .

A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .

A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .