STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .

A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .

A brave cricket takes his chances as he sits on top of this green papua tree frog .

An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .

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 woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .

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

Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .