An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water. The supernatural scene on the east coast of Australia was caused by millions of plankton omitting light. The plankton, pictured in Jervis Bay, New South Wales, were photographed by Andy Hutchinson. Andy, of Berry, Australia, says: “These bio-luminescent plankton are tiny creatures called dinoflagellates, which emit light in order to evade predators.
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .
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 .
A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .