Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes.’ The trial was late in starting. More than a half-hour after the trial was to start, the judge had yet to arrive. Ms Steenkamp was shot three times through a locked bathroom door at Pistorius's home in Pretoria on Valentine's Day 2013. The former golden boy of South African athletics, who was arrested shortly afterwards, maintains his innocence and says he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder.……
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
STOLEN £2K BULLDOG REUNITED WITH FAMILY VIA TWITTER - A £2,000 bulldog puppy snatched from her home by burglars has been reunited with her family thanks to Twitter .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
