AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns. Captured 20 million light years away, this is star gazing at its best. These amazing photographs were taken by English sales manager Terry Hancock, 60. He is able to capture the astounding images from his back garden in Michigan, America. ‘My astronomy photographs all show deep sky objects, many of them thousands or millions of light years away from Earth,’ says Terry, originally of Burnley, Lancashire.
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A family of foster carers are facing bankruptcy and homelessness after they signed up to a Government scheme to renovate their house to be used for disabled children's short breaks .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .