HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below. Photographed in Cappadocia in central Turkey, the daily balloon tours attract thousands of tourists each year, including photography teacher Scotty Graham. The 53-year-old, of Jakarta, Indonesia, and his wife, Kartika, spent an hour in one of the balloons that dotted the sky. Scotty’s hot air balloon took flight just in time for sunrise and he photographed the incredible views from the basket, floating at a height of 200 metres.
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 .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
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 .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
