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 .

The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .

A care worker who broke her spine after jumping from a window to escape a sex attack at the hands of a resident has called for tougher safety measures to protect care staff .

BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .

BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .

A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING .

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

NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .

A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .

AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .

IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .

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