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 .

With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .

THIS UNUSUAL collaboration between a mother and her two-year-old daughter makes for some stunning works of art .

GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .

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

FOR most people, spending a night locked up in a cell would be undesirable .

A woman has told how her addiction to eating bath bubbles during her pregnancy was better than SEX .

Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .

FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .

These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .

CHUCKLING away, this little seal appears to find something hilarious .

Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .