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

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

A woman left disfigured and traumatised by an addiction to lip filler injections has issued a warning to others searching for the perfect pout after the plastic chemicals nearly killed her .

A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .

An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .

This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

Ashlee, 20, has always known that she was supposed to be a girl .

Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

HIDING behind its flipper, this little seal comes over a little camera shy .

Standing on the edge of a never-ending black hole, this is one leap you wouldn't want to make .