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.
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .
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 .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .