From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States. The breath-taking images were taken by Randy P. Martin, 30, of Portland, Oregon, who travelled hundreds of miles across America and documented the most diverse and beautiful settings along the way. For Randy, the past year has seen him undertake countless road trips, navigate his route with maps made from napkins - with the help of Google Earth, walk miles across fields of lava rock and wake at 3am to see sunrise at 14,000 feet
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
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 BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .