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.……
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
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 .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
