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.
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A ROAD KILL munching Scot has chewed on everything from a dead squirrel to an unlucky crow – all in the name of art .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
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 .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .