N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years. Frail Bill Hopkins, 79, suffered a broken jaw in the cowardly attack outside his home last November. Mugger Richard Christie , 48, pounced on the pensioner from behind, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the head. He ran off with the OAP's wallet - which contained the cash, bank cards and a card from his late wife's memorial service.
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
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 .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .