A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it. Pictured under the winter sun, the bubbles glow as sunlight bounces off their surface. Photographer Hope Thurston Carter captured the images after blowing the soap bubbles on several freezing days in Michigan. The 52-year-old, of Martin, Michigan, says: 'I got the idea to blow bubbles outside in the winter after I saw several similar photos on the internet.
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .