Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions. The porcupines, after leaving their spikey mark, hurry away from the pack of big cats. But they are unable to escape when the pride's alpha male lion arrives and devours the retreating spine covered rodents. Amateur photographer and software tester Philip Eglise witness the battle during a trip to the Kalahari Desert, South Africa .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .