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.
SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
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 .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .