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.
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .