STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event. Shot over the Grand Canyon and even downtown Los Angeles, these amazing images of lightning were taken by American photographer Scott Stulberg, 57. His love of lightning led him to move to the state of Arizona, renowned for its high frequency of storms. ‘No matter where I am, I always feel like a little kid again when I see lightning,’says Scott, of Sedona, Arizona.
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 diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .