SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides. But this is exactly how one adventurous wife decided to celebrate her marriage. Rodica Havrestiuc, 25, and her husband Adrian, 24, donned their wedding day attire, as well as their snowboarding gear, to create a unique photo-shoot at Mount Holly Ski and Snowboard Resort in Michigan. The couple, originally of Suceava, Romania but now living in Belleville, Michigan, share a love of snowboarding.
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
This brave Hyena finally catches his pray among the thousands of flamingos, Lake Nakuru, Kenya - OUTNUMBERED among thousands of flamingos, this bold hyena is not put off from hunting for a morning snack .
This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .