A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis. As the green praying mantis lifts its body and prepares for battles, the amber bug simply stares into the face of the much larger rival. Photographer Monica Anantyowati captured the tense staredown in a garden close to her home in Malang, Indonesia.
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .