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.
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .