A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

A talented artist has created artwork with a KICKIN' twist by painting on his pregnant wife's bump .

A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .

HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .

Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .

A former soldier who bravely took on penny-pinching NHS bosses in his fight against terminal cancer has died, aged 37 .

A woman was diagnosed with cancer after a cyst left her so bloated medics were convinced she was pregnant .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .

INTIMATELY showcasing personal artefacts from a family's life, this abandoned bungalow has been left to rot for almost a decade .