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.
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
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 .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
